Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...special Willkie supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty by NLRB "of interfering...
...boss's explanation was confirmed by Georgia Power Co.'s President Preston S. Arkwright, who said that though the operators were supplied by "the Pinkerton agency," this had "nothing to do with labor or labor unions." President Ross C. Wallace of Central Illinois Light Co. spoke up about the tear gas and shells: $500 worth were bought for burglary protection and to patrol the company's lines when a neighboring company was on strike. In Springfield, ILL., Eugene Scott, business manager of Local 702 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.), gave Central...
...thunderstorm which delayed it for nearly half an hour at Washington's airport, a Douglas DC-3 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines took off one night last week for Pittsburgh. Twenty-three minutes later, over the foothills of the Blue Ridge range near Lovettsville, Va., 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into which it had apparently plunged full tilt. Killed and mangled were all 21 passengers, its crew of four. The force of the crash was so great that, strapped in their seats, many of them were...
...Belgian Congo after his agents had arrested the Military Governor at Brazzaville. Appointed by General de Gaulle Commander of the French Equatorial African Land, Sea and Air Forces, he can threaten Italian Libya across her undefended southern frontier, perhaps block Axis plans for a backdoor entrance into central Africa...
...cases on his long-promised new structure (TIME, July 22). First the Premier condemned the Nazi single-party system on the ground that it was un-Japanese. He then laid down objectives in significant phrases: "concentration and unification of the nation's entire power ... a national movement ... a central organ...