Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna a shrewd, cantankerous old gentleman died at the age of 93. Throughout Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, stiff-backed, military men grew grave at the news, then flooded the press of Central Europe last week with waves of reminiscence. For General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of Austria-Hungary, deceased, was a character, perhaps the most original, outspoken, best loved officer ever to wear the gold collar of a General of Division. In an army proud of its title of "the best dressed army in the world" he once telegraphed a firm of Viennese ready-made tailors...
Elected. Bayard W. Read, son of the late Financier William A. Read (Dillon, Read & Co.); to be an assistant secretary of Central Hanover Bank (Manhattan), successor organization to Central Trust Co., of which his father was a longtime trustee...
...cause: depression since the death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director of Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed...
...Vagabond hopes soon to find some evidence in the blue prints of weather stripping so that future inhabitants can be entrenched tight against the winter's blast. With conditions as they are, however, this does not seem likely, and protection against the cold will probably be confined to the central heating plant...
...advantage of the chain store organization which is overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...