Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was an unusually big morning audience at Manhattan's Palace Theatre one day last week. When 200 of them failed to leave after the first show, the management learned what was up. The 200 were jobless musicians from Local 802, biggest branch of the American Federation of Musicians. They had come well-supplied with cigarets and sandwiches and prepared to stay in their seats until RKO Service Corp. should agree to hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth...
Herbert Clark Hoover appeared at his West Branch, Ia. birthplace, bought three years ago by his son Allan, arranged (at his wife's suggestion) that the one-story frame house be restored...
...Kans.) garage, entered the auto supply business in 1909 with nothing to his name but $5 worth of stamps and a printing bill. Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets. Five years later he opened a branch of his thriving Western Auto Supply Co. in Denver. When rich Mr. Pepperdine sold his controlling interest and retired to California, he became so twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast, which now has more stores (over 200) than the original company. Familiar...
...principal speaker at the Harvard Business School Alumni Association's annual meeting. This is a "scoop" of the first order, for, next to President Roosevelt, Mr. Lewis is unquestionably the most formidable figure on today's American scene. But we hardly expect that Dean Donham will immediately organize a branch of the CIO on the industrial side of the Charles...
...Kentucky until last week, even a goldfish theoretically had some right of privacy. After what happened in the Common Pleas Branch of the 30th District Circuit Court in Louisville last week and unless the Kentucky Court of Appeals reverses the decision, though a goldfish may still have that right, a teacher in a tax-supported school or college lacks...