Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals." Let me inform you kindly that there is no such organization. It is the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. And we are not a "sect" as you state in completing your sentence. We are a denomination or branch of the Church of Jesus Christ; as are also the Armenian Church, the Coptic Church and other branches of the Church of Jesus Christ...
...been the lion, the Vice President of the U. S. A banker, Mr. Dawes has nevertheless allowed his blessing to rest on the McNary-Haugen scheme. A man of great resourcefulness, he whiffed the political air and he smelled a bill dear to "big business." That was the McFadden branch banking bill, with which is involved the fortunes of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Dawes got the bank-bill men and the farm-bill...
...high and 12 ft. wide rumbled forth, drawn by oxen, and emitting from its wooden wheel-hubs four differently pitched notes: "the sacred mournful sounds." When the great funeral pavilion was reached, the body was placed upon an altar and the Emperor bowed low before it. Picking up a branch of evergreen he placed it on the altar, beside the body, thus symbolizing that the dead Emperor had gone to everlasting life. Three times His Majesty sprinkled incense upon live coals. Three times he bowed to his dead father. Then, at last, he turned to his people and read...
...York, N. Y., February 4 Charles H. Sabin, president of The Boy's Club of New York, yesterday announced a gift of $6,000 from members of the Harvard Club of New York for the furnishing of one of the rooms in the new branch of The Boys Club now in process of construction at 321 East 111th Street. The room has been given in memory of the late Evert Jansen Wendell of the class of 1882 at Harvard University who was a prominent track athlete and who spent most of his life in work among boys. The late...
...Jefferson Park Branch of The Boys Club will represent a total investment of $800,000 and will provide for boys on the upper east side social educational and recreational activities similar to those provided for boys of the lower east side at the Tompkins Square Building of The Boys Club which has been in continuous service for fifty years. The new Branch will be the largest building devoted to boys club work when completed and will include the most modern features as to swimming pool, gymnasium, class, club and game rooms and other equipment. The district in which...