Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Feb. 25), the rumor grew that President-Elect Hoover would give Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh a sub-Cabinet job. The rumor vexed Mr. Hoover. Perhaps that was a reason for Col. Lindbergh's unexpected appointment last week by Secretary Whiting to be technical adviser to the aeronautical branch of the Department of Commerce...
Ganna Walska has had busy days this season. She has fought in court with the U. S. Customs endeavouring to establish a legal residence separate from her husband, Harold Fowler McCormick. She has opened a Manhattan branch of her Paris perfume business, and obtained orders from small-town department stores. And, contrary to all expectations, she has taken a concert tour, the peak of which came, last week, in Manhattan, where she had never ventured a public performance...
...quite all the Hoover troubles had been smoothed out. Dispute again arose as to who shall hold the Presidential hat at the Inauguration. Newt Butler of West Branch, Iowa, was to have been official hat-holder, because as a boy he "licked the stuffing out of Bert Hoover." But now 92-year old J. W. Reeder of Tipton, six miles from West Branch, claimed the honor, chiefly on grounds of seniority. Mr. Hoover will decide the hat-holding problem personally...
...twentieth century. But only genuinely appreciated by our own age. Men like Hardy and Francis Thompson help us to bridge the sharp turns in the stream. After Thompson follow Yeats and A. E., and then it is but a brief jump to Masefield and contemporaries. Aiken and Robinson branch off but then follow quickly Ezra Pound, T. E. Eliot, Amy Lowell, John Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence and the rest. The stripes are many and twisting but the resulting Zebra seems to me just as interesting an animal as the dignified elephant that came before...
...connected has as its aims the promotion of international understanding which will facilitate the quick, easy, and cheap circulation of educational films; the publication in the near future of an international educational film catalogue; and assistance to nations in every sort of cinematographic problem, especially those of the educational branch...