Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker was asked what branch of government service offered the most favorable opening for men recently graduated from college...
...able to learn he has made a perfect record. He has upheld the dignity of the judicial branch of the country in the most hectic year in American politics. He has not blurted. Sagaciously he has made no appearance to the public outside the administering of oath of office to President Roosevelt, which was his duty. And finally he has in my opinion cooperated with the present administration by weighing the element of time against its perpetual offspring -change. C. H. McWlLLIAMS Wilmington. Ohio Sirs...
...could be sued for alienation of the affections. One Louis Gold had sued Pocket Brassiere Co. Inc. et al. for $200,000. "Et al." were one Betty Bernard and three Boskys, Jacob. Irving and Sadie. Mrs. Gold, a stockholder in Pocket Brassiere Co., had been manager of its Brooklyn branch until her husband made her resign. Husband Gold charged that, with the connivance of Betty Bernard and the three Boskys. Pocket Brassiere Co. has lured his wife back to her old job, had thereby ruined his life...
...20th Century curiosity and enthusiasm, he has been a familiar U. S. literary figure for over ten years, has written masses of literary chatter but only three books. Prometheans is his fourth. Ever since he left Chicago (in 1920) he has been tinkering away at a novel which Author Branch Cabell calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites...
...turn of the century the late Cyrus Hall McCormick was looking for a cashier for his reaper company. He sent an emissary to fetch George Ranney, 24, a teller in the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still...