Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comment, crude and rude, veiled and disguised, made it evident that Europe was pleased that the French Premier was M. Herriot and not M. Poincaré as had at first been arranged (TIME, May 19). In Belgium, Germany, Central Europe, France, Italy and Britain, the greatest hope was expressed for a happy outcome to the conference; for it was felt that the Experts' Report lay in the balance. It was no overstatement to remark that the Report could not be successfully put into operation unless there was unanimity of opinion between France and Britain...
...Central Europe. A British proposal for an immediate investigation into the League's responsibility for military control of Central Europe was carried...
...strengthening of the Communist movement in practically every country of the globe." One fine, starry night the 500 delegates trooped into Red Square at Moscow and grouped themselves around the jet black tomb of Lenin. To the top of the tomb went Kalinin, the peasant-President of the Central Executive Committee of Soviets, and there he extolled the greatness of the dead Russian leader. More than 15,000 people assembled to witness the impressive scene...
...soon as the Vestry had accepted his resignation, Dr. Grant sprang into a taxi and rushed off to the Grand Central Station, accompanied by an unidentified grey-haired woman. He was discovered that evening at Beaver Lodge in Bedford Village, N. Y. For three years the rector had been publicly engaged to Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, captivating gentle woman, in her late forties. Mrs. Lydig married W. E. D. Stokes in 1895 when she was only 16. Divorcing him later, she married a gallant officer, Major Philip M. Lydig, divorced him in Paris in 1919 for incompatibility. Because...
...rediscount rate of the New York Reserve Bank compares with the rates of the other leading central banks of the world as follows: Austria 12, Belgium 5½, Bulgaria 7, Czecho-Slovakia 6, Denmark 7, England 4, France 6, Germany 10 (cen-tenmarks) and 90 (old paper marks), Greece 7½, Hungary 18, India 7, Italy 5½, Japan 8, Holland 5, Norway 7, Poland 12, Portugal 9, Rumania 6, South Africa 6, Spain 5, Sweden 5½, Switzerland...