Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Washington. In New York, Patrick Cardinal Hayes officiated at a requiem high mass. Most of the Latin American Consuls and a gentleman by the name of Emilio C. Diaz who claims official recognition as the last Tao or King of Chibcha Indians of Colombia, buried the base of Central Park's Bolivar statue under wreaths. Great Britain: Members of the Diplomatic Corps attended a requiem high mass in Westminster Cathedral (not the Abbey). Arthur Henderson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, unveiled a tablet in Apsley House where El Libertador was once entertained by Wellington, not yet the victor...
...Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found...
...Author. Henry Baerlein was born in Manchester, England, on April Fool's Day 55 years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books...
...itself great,' " concluded Correspondent Knickerbocker. "When one draws the balance sheet of the Five-Year Plan [today] at the end of its second year, the credits appear to overbalance the debits. ... No branch of [Russian] industry [has] failed to increase its output. . . . The representative of one of the great central banks of Europe . . . told me he considered the Soviet Union a perfectly sound risk for trade credits up to three or four years...
...Next month E. A. T. will open in time for the winter trade its passenger service to Miami, there to connect with Pan American Airways' lines to Cuba, Porto Rico, Central and South America...