Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
...SMIRT - Branch Cabell - McBride...
...Author Branch Cabell, a newcomer to the U. S. scene, has written only three books (These Restless Heads, Special Delivery, Smirt). But they bear a marked likeness to the 18 volumes of one James Branch Cabell, who announced in 1929 that he would write no more of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Now 54, Author Cabell has found it impossible to change his spots. A much-gnawed bone of contention, with little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell...
Throughout the whole of Canada, from Halifax to Victoria, from North Portal to The Pas, there are only eleven commercial banks. Canadian banking is branch banking in finest flower. But Canada is unique in that it has no central bank of issue, no Federal Reserve, no bankers' bank. Last week Premier Richard Bedford Bennett prepared to give the Dominion a quasi-public institution modeled after the venerable Bank of England...
...will be one of the speakers at a dinner to be given for Alexander A. Troyanovsky, Russian Ambassador to the United States, at the Copley-Plaza on Thursday, March 8. The dinner is being given by the American Russian Institute and Professor Hocking is president of the New England branch of the society...