Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Named as if in competition with the Communist International, the Dance International was conceived about six months ago by a wide-eyed, energetic young woman from Richmond, Va., Louise Branch, who runs a book shop in Manhattan and is secretary to famed Sculptor Malvina Hoffman. She thought it would be nice to have something like Olympic Games in dancing, to bring world artists in that medium together for the sake of Peace. Miss Hoffman, who has sculped native dancers in Asia, Africa and the South Seas, thought so too. During the summer Miss Branch and Miss Hoffman traveled...
...down to four items when he omitted modernized anti-trust legislation in his opening message, the President's program called for legislation on: 1) crop control, 2) wages & hours, 3) reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, 4) Regional Planning. Last week this program, with one exception, remained approximately where it was before the Session convened. The exception was Item...
...Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing an interest in heroin and morphine. This the Tong members were able to supply him through a group of white friends, who apparently had a reciprocal treaty for opium...
...Cincinnati 32 truck drivers of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. and their guests last week celebrated winning the American Trucking Associations' award as the nation's safest fleet in its class at a dinner given by Kroger President Albert Morrill in the big grill room of the Cincinnati Club...
...communicants, 20,000,000 constituents and 29,000 ministers, the new church will be the nation's largest Protestant body. Ratification of the merger of the three churches, proposed three summers ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), requires assent of three-quarters of the conferences of each Methodist branch. Northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestants had ratified, and by last week in 30 of 42 Southern Methodist conferences, 90% of those voting favored the merger. Formal ratification must wait, however, on action by the Southern Church's annual conference next...