Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire was said to be ready to declare "outlawed"the Chinese Generalis simo, famed Chiang Kaishek, who mean while last week himself held a supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor...
...After a brief talk with Secretary of State Hull in Manhattan, Mr. Wilson passed through Washington, where it was announced by the State Department that he would stay in the U. S. a while to "advise" the Department on Central European doings. To join their conversations at Warm Springs, President Roosevelt summoned William ("Bill") Phillips, his Ambassador to the other Jew-purging dictatorship, Italy, who returned to the U. S. early last month on leave...
...national frenzy to grab neighbors' territory was started by Adolf Hitler's Sudeten grab. The rest of Central Europe thereupon went grab crazy, Hungary getting 4,800 sq. mi. of Czechoslovakia, Poland getting 400. Like the 1937 U. S. sit-down fad, the grab craze has now infected people who have less & less excuse to be infected...
...late 505 the pair moved way uptown (22nd Street) to cater to the carriage trade. As the city grew, George urged moving again; Andrew wanted to stay near Gramercy Park. George moved, Andrew stayed. George proved the wiser, for the very year he set up on 43rd Street, Grand Central Station moved right across the street, and his store flourished...
...central figure, a rock-chinned, canny young Scottish giant named Alex MacTay, has the makings of a poet, but instead goes to the U. S. to make a fortune. The year is 1890. On a farm in western Pennsylvania he schemes a partnership in a sidehill coal "bank," marries the farmer's pretty daughter, a schoolteacher, stamps out the last of his poetic impulses. At 34 he owns two big coal mines, is worth a million...