Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts there are two branches of the Coolidge family which claim only the remotest kin. The more plebeian branch produced the 30th President of the U. S. The new Undersecretary of the Treasury stems from the more aristocratic...
Shirley Temple is the daughter of a branch manager of California Bank in Santa Monica. Associate Producer Lew Brown, who discovered Jackie Cooper, chose her for Stand Up and Cheer from a group of 200 child actresses who answered a general call. She had already learned to sing by imitating radio crooners. She learned most of her tap-dancing in three weeks on the Fox lot. Blonde and pretty, Shirley Temple signed her own contract with...
...desires, for the sake of mere consistency, that these inept matrons should espouse the cause of World Revolution. They have their own contribution to offer America as a picturesque and well-behaved branch organization with all the badges and regalia of the Elks; Odd-Fellows, and the Legion, but also good-behavior and disinterestedness. Their program is bright and entertaining, as desired. But before the Daughters can hope to enlist youth, especially students in a program of "talking America up," faith in government, and country; they will have to yank themselves out of the political picture and indulge in some...
...1890s he set himself up as H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., maker of die castings. Mechanically-minded young men of that time were absorbed in the automobile, and when John Wilkinson gave Herbert Franklin a ride in an air-cooled contraption he had just invented, Herbert Franklin decided to branch into the exciting new industry. In 1902 Motorman Franklin produced 13 automobiles priced at $1,100 each. Soon he ranked among the largest makers in the U. S. Other companies have long since outstripped Franklin in volume but by the 1920s production was running about 8,000 per year, soaring...
...German patriotism split badly in 1915 when he raised his cheerful bellow in Manhattan's Harvard Club in celebration of the sinking of the Lusitania and was asked to resign. When the U. S. went to war Hanfstaengl was in Manhattan tending the family's branch store and could not get back to Germany. On his return in 1922 he threw in his lot with an obscure troublemaker named Adolf Hitler. By last week he was Chancellor Hitler's best personal friend, his liaison officer with the U. S. and British Press, his favorite pianoplayer...