Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...
Most densely populated large region of Earth is Cochin, a British Indian State, according to a last week's dispatch. Cochin has 814 people to the square mile. (Rhode Island has 644.1 persons per square mile, Nevada...
...college in 1886. Son of a lawyer who quit a Detroit practice to become a Presbyterian preacher and who wanted his son to enter the ministry. President Atterbury started in the Pennsylvania's great Altoona shops. In 1903 President Cassatt jumped him to general manager of the eastern region, a key post. Thereafter his rise, like all railroadmen's, was slow. There are no young railroad presidents. William Wallace Atterbury, now 67, was just under 60 when he stepped into Samuel Rea's shoes...
...between Roumauta and Hungary. Until 1926 the Spanish and French were attempting to crush the Riffs. In 1923 the Italians bombarded Corfu. In 1929 the Chinese and Russians saw action in Manchuria. For the last few years Japan has been grappling with China in the same region; while in South America there has been continual friction. At the present moment Bolivia and Paraguay are in opposite trenches, Peru and Colombia began offensive operations, yesterday. All these minor wars, plus the Big Blow of 1914-1918, are well within the twenty years of progress mentioned by President Hoover...
...Republic, expresses some of this righteous indiguation. Though a little radical, at least his indictments against American banking appear sound. His criticism is two-fold. In the first place, he contends that there are too many banks. Where one strong institution might adequately serve a whole region, there are five weak banks struggling for existence. When crises come, some of these are bound to go under. In the second place Mr. Hammond points to the hopeless chaos in which the dual system of control, state and national, has resulted. Two different sets of rules, and two different responsibilities are thus...