Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Read a motion by Arkansas' Robinson to invoke cloture in debate on the Glass banking bill (see col. 2). ¶ Adopted (52-to-17) an amendment to the Glass banking bill limiting national branch banking to States which permit State branch banking. ¶ Heard Indiana's Robinson call France "a thorough ingrate." ¶ Passed a bill giving 350,000 bales of Farm Board cotton to the Red Cross. ¶ Passed without debate a resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee to give the President wider powers to embargo arms shipments. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Virginia's Glass...
Just before Christmas silent-footed persons posted the above notice on the door of Japan-born Alvin K. Aurell, son of a Kansas-born missionary, today branch manager in Yokohama for Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Aurell was not exactly alarmed. Singer's labor troubles in Japan began more than a year ago, caused the company to close its Osaka and Kobe branches last November. Last week Manager Aurell sat calmly eating his lunch when a large motor truck drove up to his branch, dumped a load of cordwood in front of the door...
...crack passenger trains between the two cities, each making a roundtrip, are now electrically- drawn. Eventually all passenger trains on the run, then all freight trains, will have electric locomotives. Electrification of the lines as far as Wilmington will be completed by February but work on the Wilmington-Washington branch has been postponed...
...days later 72 French deputies received a carefully typewritten letter. The printed head was that of the Paris branch of the ETHNICAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF NEWFOUNDLANDERS AND GUATEMALANS whose New York headquarters was given as "43 72nd Ave. N. W. 2." The E. D. L. N. G. appealed to France's legislators for moral support of a petition about to be presented to President-elect Roosevelt. It commenced...
While Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long blustered and blathered on the floor of the U. S. Senate all last week in a filibuster against the Glass branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors...