Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Executive, as parts of the President's immediate executive setup, would go the Budget Bureau (now in the Treasury Department), the Central Statistical Committee and Board (independent), National Resources Committee (independent) and Federal Employment Stabilization Office (since 1935 a name only in Commerce...
...obvious step will be the affording to each nation of a sufficient gold base through a central agency for the establishment of a sound national currency. . . . Obviously, also, a large portion of the fund would be used for compensation in relation to the transfer to the 'have-not' nations, large and small, of the necessary sources of raw material. . . . The disbursement of the fund would be linked to progressive demobilization and demilitarization...
...happy family known as the Society of Illustrators neared the end of a month of sober lectures by technicians including non-illustrators Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh. At the swank Park Lane its members reveled until dawn in gay costume at their annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most difficult field," it said defiantly, "but the art critics and the plush carpeted galleries know them...
...President Whalen contracted to give them any profits that might remain after bondholders were paid off. And when the fair is over, the reclaimed-dump site, including four of the fair buildings, will revert to the city as a park half again as large as Manhattan's famed Central Park and valued in the grandiloquent Whalen fashion at $100,000,000. New York State and City thus are guaranteed a certain tangible return on their money...
Detroit editors listened intently to some motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal...