Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...doing real bank work in Wall Street. Training of the scholarship students is under supervision of the Bank's Educational Department. After graduation students will finish training and be assigned to one of the more than 50 foreign branches of the Bank. These are located in South and Central America and Europe. Some students may be assigned to branches of the International Banking Corporation, located chiefly in the Orient...
...compromise, and for a compromise settlement. The last proposal runs a few thousands ahead of the other two. Did this division furnish a true sample of the state of mind of the whole nation, we should be forced to find in it an evidence of pronounced and central cleavage. Anyway, the vote is two to one against the League in its present shape...
...University Astronomical Observatory has received by cable the information that a new comet has been discovered by Comas Sola, the director of the observatory at Barcelona, Spain. The information came in a cablegram from Professor Lecointe, who is in charge of the new Central International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams as Brussels...
...University Observatory, which has been recognized by the Central International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams as the centre for distribution of European astronomical information in America, is in touch with Professor Lecointe, and thus receives the earliest word of discoveries made in Europe. In return, it maintains contact with American observatories and transmits to Professor Lecointe the news of their latest achievements, so that the astronomers of both continents may be always informed of the progress of the science everywhere. In accordance with this plan the Harvard Observatory today telegraphed the news of Comas Sola's discovery to other American observatories...
Speakers from a score of countries appealed at Des Moines to the students of Canada and America to aid in the work of missions abroad. Cablegrams from Hungary, and Cairo, and Central Africa, from the Russian student prisoners, from Buenos Ayres and Shanghai and Bulgaria were received on New Year's day and read from the platform by John R. Mott, the Chairman of the Conference--cable grams from men in the field, greeting the Conference and reiterating the plea for help. The opening speakers outlined the great progress of the Student Volunteer Movement, and showed by word and picture...