Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...munitions men have only one thing to fight - internationalism. As businessmen their aim is to keep each nation overarmed, to stir up nationalistic anxieties which only guns and shells and tanks can quiet. The de Wendels operate equally well on either side of an international bor der. One branch of the family uses a de in front of its name while the other uses...
...week in Manhattan Mr. Whitney put in a good hard week's work against the Exchange Bill. Summoning the senior partners of the biggest wire houses, he outlined the bill's high points. Soon the private wire systems flashed to managers and resident partners in 1,200 branch offices messages like this: "National Securities [Exchange] Act is a matter of grave concern to every owner of real estate or securities, to all officials of corporations or banks. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that very few of your friends or clients can afford to disregard this new menace...
...family had one of the State's largest cattle ranches and where he began practicing law in 1892 after leaving Washington University (St. Louis). He still goes back to Dillon to visit his brothers, still maintains his local reputation as a teller of prime fish stories. His branch of the family claim no kin with Republican Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, onetime (1923-28) U. S. Ambassador to Peru...
Last week, at 34, Mike Devlet thought it was again time to change jobs. He dissolved his partnership with John Gertler and walked out with a small army of Gertler, Devlet employes. Partner Gertler added "& Co." to his name and continued the old business with branches in eight U. S. cities. Mike Devlet organized his own municipal bond house as follows: he set up six individual concerns each operated by its own partners, and each a specialist in a particular branch of the business. One was to sell high grade bonds, another land bank and Home Owners Loan bonds...
...Unless you are truly eager to help people and to search out new discoveries, turn your efforts to some other branch of study." Few U. S. university presidents have dared speak out thus frankly about the social hurdle which has been set up before their overburdened medical schools. Unable to eliminate brilliant applicants on the basis of marks, some medical school boards now weed them out for pimply faces, loud voices, awkward manners or unpressed pants...