Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body of fifteen can work as efficiently as a group of nine. Since the court cannot be split into two sessions,--else there would be no supreme court at all,--fifteen judges will have to sit at once, in effect making a minor deliberative body like a third branch of Congress, rather than a court of law. Thus, unless the present executive heat persuades the present elder justices that it's time to retire, the speed at which the court can perform will be retarded rather than advanced...
...public service and advancing to positions of importance in it. "The school will carefully avoid becoming a place of vocational training in the narrow sense", says the Crimson. "It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career men on leave may orient their work more definitely than recent graduates...
...Navachine joined the ranks of Russian widows who say their husbands have been murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result was the present Franco-Soviet Pact, negotiated...
...locomotives. New York Central, headed for receivership in the depth of Depression, was about to cut its interest charges by refunding old bonds. And Pennsylvania announced that it would start immediately on electrification of 85 mi. of four-track main line west to Harrisburg, Pa. Various yard, branch and freight lines will be electrified at the same time, bringing the cost of the whole project to about $158,000,000 and completing the program launched in 1928 by the late William Wallace Atterbury...
...school should not attempt to provide highly specialized preparation for individual branches of public service," so the commission believes. "It should seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter. The student body of the school should consist mostly of promising young men already in the government service, studying on leave of absence, and of men with professional training who would acquire knowledge of public administration at the school in order to realize their fullest potentialities in the public service...