Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having last fortnight (TIME, May 6) established a U. S. branch, Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie last week strengthened its international position by adding the Swiss chemical industry to the European chemical cartel. For, though I. G. Dyes is not the entire German chemical industry, it does occupy a dominant position in its field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France...
...several European countries to the extreme of exterminating every Mennonite man, woman, and child who could be caught. Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during his campaigns. One branch of the Mennnonites holds that excommunication of husband or wife dissolves a marriage and that it is a grievious sin to use a razor or secure one's clothes by buttons Thus their men are all bearded and adept at doing and undoing hooks and eyes...
Married. Barbara Prudence Barnard of Manhattan, daughter of Sculptor George Grey Barnard; and Gordon MacGregor of Manhattan; in Sculptor Barnard's Cloisters (personally collected group of medieval art), a branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
Married. Virginia Waddill Shepherd of Richmond, Va., step-daughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen); and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer; in Richmond...
...Ewing Mears, surgeon and writer, left the bequest to Harvard with several stipulations, which the University declined to meet. The donor stated in his will; "It is my wish that the subject be taught in all its branches, notably that branch relating to the treatment of defective and criminal classes by surgical procedures, as I have advocated in my writings on the subject...