Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mansfield, who has had wide experience in problems of labor law as counsel for various Massachusetts labor unions, explained to the members of the Legal. Aid Bureau many interesting phases of that branch of the state law. His talk was made dramatic and interesting by illustrations from the many cases which he has handled personally, and from literature. In conclusion he drew several humorously striking contrasts between modern Massachusetts law firms and such creations of Dickens as "Spenlow and Jorkins" or "Dodson and Fogg...
...Porto Rico, of the Governor General of the Philippines and of the Secretary of Agriculture; the son of the Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere was furnished by the food (fried chicken, beaten biscuit) and entertainment (Tapdancer Bill Robinson). Guests...
Conclusions: "The Plan is a method for Russia to 'starve itself great,' " concluded Correspondent Knickerbocker. "When one draws the balance sheet of the Five-Year Plan [today] at the end of its second year, the credits appear to overbalance the debits. ... No branch of [Russian] industry [has] failed to increase its output. . . . The representative of one of the great central banks of Europe . . . told me he considered the Soviet Union a perfectly sound risk for trade credits up to three or four years...
...Bronx, N. Y., a small merchant went to a branch of Bank of United States and asked officials to buy his stock in the institution. They told him to keep it, that it was a good investment. He misunderstood, and by late afternoon a good-sized run had developed. Police kept clamorous depositors in line. The bad news spread to other branches...
...tossed passes for long gains. Navy 26, Penn 0. A 76-yd. march in the last three minutes almost brought New York University a tie in their post-season charity game, but Colgate blocked the kick. Colgate 7, N. Y. U. 6. North Carolina's punting quarterback, Johnny Branch, held Duke at bay, but that was not all his team had to do. The scoreless tie played in the mud gave Duke the State championship, since North Carolina had been beaten by Davidson. Although outrushed by eleven first downs to seven, a Tom-Thumb team from Rice amazed...