Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the official bulletins and miscellaneous documentary announcements from this branch of the institution will ever contain facts important enough to draw the wrath of the press and humanitarian society down on the heads of the officials, is a question. Probably the majority of statements issued are wholly harmless. Nevertheless, this is of secondary instance...
...police description looks rather spiteful. Perhaps the product of some minor minion. Almost invites retaliation. What ingratitude! . . . O tempora, o mores! . . . Back in 1920, the most befitting legend over headauarters would have been "POLICE HEADQUARTERS, a branch of the Securities Exchange Co." Witness, the police detail assigned by the 'department to help me handle the crowd of investors...
...Guelph, Ontario, 61 years ago was horn Arthur William Cutten, Chicago's big stock & commodity bull. Notoriously unschooled in taking profits, he has not been very active since the Crash. Last week he made news by heading back toward his native Canada. He moved one branch of his business from Chicago to Winnipeg, from the Board of Trade to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange...
Scientists still laugh at people who locate water with a witch-hazel branch and foretell a man's way of life by the stars present at his birth. But last week in Manhattan, U. S. chemists apologized for having laughed at people who predict the weather by feelings in their feet. They awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society to Dr. John Arthur Wilson, 40, consulting chemist of Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Wilson was judged worthy of the medal (given for outstanding achievement in colloid chemistry) for his seven years' study of leather...
...association is undertaking a drive to secure steady financial support for a branch of the Genfell Mission in Labrador. The committee stated last night that "inasmuch as the first ship that Wilfred Grenfell used was furnished by Harvard, it seems fitting that the University should continue to support and man the present ship...