Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrong at Bonn. The Social Democratic Party bitterly fought the Western Powers' "interference" in the work of the constitutional convention because it tended to impose too many limitations upon German sovereignty. The Western Allies, cried the Socialists, were trying to create a federal republic with such a weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged party leader Kurt Schumacher lashed...
Then things began to happen. With Russian pressure for a new four-power conference and abandonment of the proposed West German state (see above), the West could not afford to have the Bonn talks collapse now. First, the West offered important concessions strengthening the proposed central government's legislative and fiscal powers; this was designed to pacify the Socialists. The wires buzzed between Washington and U.S. officials in Germany. Next, the State Department's old Germany hand, Robert Murphy, left his desk at half a day's notice, flew to Germany. After days of conferences, Schumacher...
Premier Ho Ying-chin and other commanders from central and lower China. Their reported decision: to join hands for resistance...
...member of the Peabody Museum staff since 1930 and Director since last year, Professor Brew has directed archaeological expeditions in the United States and Canada. His work is now concentrated on excavations in the central regions of southwestern United States, where the archaeologist's field is "extremely fertile," since the area is so remote that it is untouched by previous expeditions. The region, near Pietown, New Mexico, contains remains of civilizations which were predecessors of the Pueblos, according to Professor Brew...
...Examiner J.A. Prichard tartly recommended that the application be turned down. He said the road should be a profitable operation, but was actually trying to lose money. At Morenci, it had allowed its tracks to be torn up and given its right of way to the New York Central. (The owner, a Columbus scrap-metal firm, said it had been ordered out for want of a franchise.) The owners' real object, said the examiner, was to go out of business so that its trackage, bought for only $33,-450 in 1933, could be sold as scrap...