Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the noon meal, which was postponed on account of the late start, the four Harvard crews, University, Jayvee, Freshman, and Combination, rowed downstream to the submarine base at a high paddle, and on the return trip their-is a branch...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. S., Southern branch of the Church, held its general Assembly last week in Montreal, N. C., elected its first lay moderator since 1914: R. A. Dunn, president of Commercial National Bank in Charlotte, N._ C. The Presbyteries disapproved the Birth Control attitude of the Federal Council of Churches, and voted 5 to 2 for withdrawal from the Council...
Died, Edward Dean Adams, 85, retired banker; in Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident near Aiken, S. C., last March while he was going to Fort Myers, Fla., to visit his friend Thomas Alva Edison. Born in Boston of a collateral branch of the presidential Adams family, he went to Manhattan in 1878 as a partner in Winslow, Lanier & Co. Reorganizer during the 1880's of many railroads, he reorganized in 1893 the $300,000,000 Northern Pacific of which he was board chairman in 1896-97. From 1890 to 1896 he was board chairman and president...
...last week was President Hoover addressed by his Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, Clarence Marshall Young, in a special report requested by the White House. In it the public was reminded of what it might have forgotten: that the Air Commerce Act of 1926, which created the Aeronautics Branch, was a project to which Secretary Hoover gave lavishly of his time and energy...
...Together with the announcement that the telescope was shortly to be erected, Dr. Shapley discussed other items in the new development plan, including the construction of the new annex to the main building of the plant, and the inauguration of organized systematic work in the study of meteors, a branch of the science which has been neglected until...