Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Houses went into operation the center of Harvard life for the upper-classmen shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles. Five of the Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop and Leverett, are grouped fairly close together in one section, while Dunster is located farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast on Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mt. Auburn Street, are located also the New Athletic Building, most of the clubs and the officers of the CRIMSON, Lampoon and Advocate...
...industrial Barcelona, the proletarian "Pittsburgh of Spain" and the country's only modern metropolis, last week took for its Region of Catalonia the autonomous rank of a semi-collectivist State by proclamation, acclaim and much frenzied carousing and shooting in the streets. The great city's exultant Communists. Anarchists and Socialists still were friendly to Spain's Madrid regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes...
...Nevertheless-and I speak from a long experience-the effective maintenance of American neutrality depends today, as in the past, on the wisdom and determination of whoever at the moment occupy the offices of President and Secretary of State." ¶ A visit to Binghamton, N. Y., another flood region, where he made another automobile tour and encountered the only lukewarm reception on his trip...
...Visits to Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania's anthracite region. In a 30-mile drive he was met by an unprecedented turnout of several hundred thousand, including many of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, each of whom has been asked to contribute $1 toward the President's reelection. The Roosevelt panama was crushed completely out of shape in an afternoon of strenuous hat-waving at enthusiastic admirers...
...week were all Spanish Morocco, the two largest Balearic Islands, whose political boss Juan March was contributing all the aid he could from Paris, and a great crescent- shaped swath of Spain swinging from Navarre around Madrid and down through Andalusia. The Government on the other hand held the region of Madrid, the east coast of Spain, part of the north coast and strong cities such as Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga...