Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are merged in Hawaii as the Central Union Church...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...
Nicholas Roerich, demigod to many an esthete in the U. S., South America, Russia and the European capitals and to many a monk and nomad of Central Asia, returned to Manhattan last week. With him was his son George, Harvard orientalist. More than four years they have spent ranging through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark...
...museums, public schools, libraries, prisons and to major South American cities. They established a Roerich Museum in Manhattan to hold as many of his paintings as they could get. The museum now has 750 Roerichs; European galleries and individuals own some 2,500. They sent him to Central Asia. While he was away they financed and recently started for him a 24-story Master Building in Manhattan, looking across the Hudson River at the factories of New Jersey. That dank, uncompleted Master Building was where the Roerich acolytes received him and his son last week...
...floats representing all manner of trades and industries. Around and among the slow-moving floats pranced and danced umbrella makers, luggage manufacturers, butchers, bakers, florists, plumbers, executing dance figures appropriate to their trades. Specially composed music, tunes of historical significance, were recorded on phonograph discs, broadcast from a central station, picked up and amplified on the floats. Author of the spectacle was Rudolf von Laban, Austrian painter, philosopher, choreographer. He was demonstrating his point that dancing lends itself as well as any of the arts to the purposes of commerce...