Word: centrales
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...answers it. Eventually, an exciting correspondence develops between her and a young engineer in South America who is under the delusion that he is writing to the Follies lady. When he invents a new kind of switch and comes to New York to confer with the New York Central Railroad, the complications begin, which carry every one back to Peru for the last act. This last act, by the way, is just a bit fanciful to say the least. Miss Binney follows the engineer, who persistently and quite unnaturally refuses to take any notice of her, down to Peru, organizes...
...opportunity to contribute to such a cause. Approved by Ex-president Wilson, Secretary Hoover and many of the greatest religious and educational leaders of the country, who serve on its Advisory Committee, the organization has been carrying on relief work for several years in central and eastern Europe. The possibility of education, the only remaining barrier in parts of Europe to chaos and a new barbarism, has been kept alive in many cases only by means of the work of the Student Friendship Fund, representing the donations and labor of the students of almost all the nations of the world...
...Central and Eastern Europe has lost fully one-third of her skilled technicians, doctors, engineers, agriculturists, etc., during and since the war. Reconstruction awaits the trained leadership of today's students. The condition of these students is physically desperate, and the European Student Relief Association which administers the Fund, is the only agency upon which they can rely for help...
...Reparations Commission invited General Charles G. Dawes, founder and head of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, to act as chairman of the commission which is to investigate German finance (TIME...
...appointment of Dr. Schacht was considered a defeat for the Reichsbank directorate and the Central Reichsbank Committee, formed of big banking interests, both of which supported Dr. Helfferich...