Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor be invited to return to England to live?" Result: 37% preferred the U. S., 28% France and 15% Germany; 61% were for inviting the Windsors back to England. This survey was made last July (Edward abdicated last December) by the British Institute of Public Opinion, the London branch of the serious, well-reputed American Institute of Public Opinion which makes personal interview surveys which it sells to the Press. Cavalcade has just signed up for its services, figures Britons must feel much the same about Edward today as they did in July...
Executive Reorganization."To carry out any Twentieth-Century program, we must give the executive branch of the Government Twentieth-Century machinery to work with. . . . For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers...
...Unit v. Branch. The A. B. A.'s avoidance of New Deal criticism goes back three years to its convention in Washington when the rank & file were hot for fu mination against liberal finance, but the big banks forced through a policy of passing the peace pipe to President Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Next year in convention at New Orleans this same issue boiled over in an action almost unprecedented in A. B. A. history-a hot contest for election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead...
...given more say in its management and announced they would demand a change in the A. B. A. constitution supporting the established dual (state and national) banking system. Last week a few of them took the step of hiring separate headquarters but further separation was unnecessary, for the big branch banks yielded without a struggle. Instead of a constitutional change, however, they deftly compromised on a resolution to the same effect. This was accepted by unit bankers as a complete victory for their views, but few observers believed the hatchet was thus buried forever...
...gives training in such fields as accounting, banking, brokerage, foreign commerce, industrial relations, manufacturing, public affairs, transportation & public utilities. Business schools begin with background courses in economics, corporation finance, statistics, business law, advance to specialized, practical problems. The biggest, at New York University (some 10,000 students), has a branch near Wall Street. Northwestern's main centre is a few minutes from Chicago's Loop...