Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1 U. S. branch-banker and John Francis Neylan, oldtime San Francisco newsman and now William Randolph Hearst's shrewd, hawk-nosed general counsel, were elected directors of Manhattan's National City Bank. Taking two of the three seats vacated by Charles Edwin Mitchell, Hugh Benton Baker and Percy Avery Rockefeller, Messrs. Giannini & Neylan will speak for National City's largest stockholder, Transamerica Corp., of which Mr. Giannini is the rambunctious chairman. Transamerica acquired its block of nearly 600,000 shares when it sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National...
...Vagabond was recently reminded that Professors, as a group, are not of the human race. They move, like a James Branch Cabel Wotan, in a Valhalla of their own making. Not that they are much given to Walkuere-Quite the reverse. But they are absolute in their own spheres, they have the prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with...
...Said newsmagazine Time, reviewing "The Shape of Things to Come"; "Harvard University, with T. S. Eliot as president, will be an old-world backwater, out-Oxfording Oxford." Mr. T. S. Eliot is not a grandson of President Charles William Eliot, but a member of another branch of the family...
...Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail branch of racketeering. "In some countries the orgies of an NRA put through PDQ might end in TNT. "President Roosevelt better call a special session to repeal this...
...miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey City and at dawn the sleeping President was rolling through Washington, on across the Potomac and down a Southern Ry. branch line to the Virginia town of Harrisonburg. There, after breakfast, he detrained, climbed into an open car with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and set out to have his first look at some Civilian Conservation Corps camps...