Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and his Wafdists hoped they could maintain a monopoly as bestowers of royal advice. Two months ago strong-willed Farouk, without ado, plucked Ali Maher from the Senate and reinstalled him as royal adviser. Premier Nahas protested volubly. Wafdist Blue-shirts, a semimilitary student branch of the party, clashed with pro-Farouk student groups in the streets of Cairo. Farouk remained adamant...
...Guffey-Vinson Act split the U. S. into 23 coal-producing districts, each with a branch office supervised from Washington by the B. C. C. Also created were ten minimum price areas. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (covering Iowa and all the U. S. east of the Mississippi), which produce 80% of all U. S. soft coal, are those affected by last week's price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according...
During the War, when George Bernard Shaw wanted to give a symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak House" and the other "Horseback Hall." Last week in Washington, an exhibition at the new branch gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall...
...Barney approached 50 another firm was founded in Philadelphia by the late Edward Brinton Smith, a railroad & utility banker. In Philadelphia, where such things count, Edward B. Smith & Co. was socially the equal of Chas. D. Barney & Co., and financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost ground, and the founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed by John W. Cutler had to start almost from scratch. As in C. D. Barney, the Manhattan office became the head office...
...there is profit to the individual, too. At the end of one path where one must stop, there branch out more paths to follow, more new trails to be explored, where again is a chance to lead the way for others. All is not vanity and vexation of spirit. Rather is there work for all to do, rewards for doing...