Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Graveraet Kaufman, 59, resigned as chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. (with which his Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. was merged in February). While president of the Michigan Bankers' Association he discovered that national banks might branch with the Comptroller of the Currency's permission. He kept mum, went to New York to purchase the old Phenix Bank. After merging the Chatham Bank, he acquired several others which he operated as branches. Bets as high as $5,000 were made that he would be stopped. Permission was granted...
World School of Journalism (U. S. Branch...
...Passed a bill by New York's Carley authorizing the purchase of a branch postoffice, now leased, in Manhattan at a cost of not more than $15.500,000; sent it to the Senate...
...Yawalapiti, a primitive, vegetable-eating, pot-bellied folk were minding their daily affairs in their village on a source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over...
...like to discover at once a cure for cancer, or for tuberculosis, but I venture to say that the final determining step that will lead to either one will be made by some one who is concerned with the orderly development of some obscure and apparently unrelated branch of science as such, rather than with direct attainment of the great objective...