Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requests not even the ghost of a serious reception. When 110 legislators assembled two weeks ago in Oklahoma City and notified him that the Legislature was in special session, he said to their committee: "Your body has a legal right to meet as citizens only and not as a branch of the legislative body. I decline and hereby refuse to receive any report from you as representing a legally convened legislature." He cited a State Supreme Court decision to that effect. He posted three companies of National guardsmen to patrol the state capitol and prevent "all insurrectionary meetings," following...
...Treasury Department announced its policy for Prohibition enforcement in 1928. Last year, some 24 millions were appropriated for the Prohibition unit's work in 1927. Next year's expenses were expected to be heavier. But since its reorganization as a branch of the civil service, the Bureau is more efficient. And, decided the Bureau, were moneys not spent as in the past on buying lecturers to preach, literature to parade and statistics to prove the triumphs of Prohibition, there would be plenty to spread around on straight enforcement. The Treasury Department therefore announced that it would cease...
During the week the Soviet press bureau denounced all reports of uprisings in the Ukraine as "barefaced lies"; and the Moscow branch of the great Jewish charitable organization Agrojoint declared that its agents throughout the territory in question have reported no revolutionary disturbance whatsoever...
Banks. Stockholders of the Chase National Bank voted to absorb the Mutual Bank in Manhattan. Mutual stockholders had already agreed. The transaction gives Chase National and its affiliated Chase Securities Corp. capital, surplus & undivided profits of more than $134,000,000. The Mutual bank office becomes Chase's 21st branch in New York City. (Chase also has three foreign branches...
Those who have dabbled in touch football and other forms of intramural sport will welcome the step toward organization of this branch of athletics, which will be taken with the meeting of the Intramural Sports Council today. The lack of the system and of the stability imparted by the existence and activity of a governing body has been the most salient feature of the essays made in the field of inter club competition at Harvard...