Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Senator from New York could not have chosen a better occasion for his strictures on the decline of the U. S. House as a deliberative body. Up for debate in the legislative branch whose constitutional duty is to originate all revenue bills was the most important measure introduced in Congress this session-the Revenue Bill of 1936. Far more significant than an ordinary revenue bill, it proposed a historic change in U. S. tax policy. Of the 150 Representatives who turned out for the start of the first day's debate, only 34 were left...
Franz Boas got into anthropology 53 years ago. He has invaded almost every branch of this science: linguistics, primitive mentality, folklore, ethnology, growth and senility, the physical effects of environment. He reminds his colleagues of the oldtime family doctor who did everything from delivering babies to pulling teeth...
...write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright-colored...
Wearing a black gown and a black-veiled mitre, there arrived in Manhattan last autumn His Grace the Most Reverend Theodosios Abourjaily, Archbishop of Tyre & Sidon, Metropolitan of Judadeh and personal delegate of Alexander III, Patriarch of Antioch in the Syrian branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America, with 60,0000 members, had been without a head since 1934, when Archbishop Victor and his two immediate subordinates died. To select a successor, Archbishop Theodosios was dispatched to the U. S. by the Patriarch to supervise an election in which all male Syrians over...
...week a court fight was in progress in Massachusetts to determine after 36 years of Pinkham family squabbling whether control of the business, which still nets $840,000 a year, would remain with the three rich grandsons of Mrs. Pinkham or with her richer daughter and two granddaughters. Each branch of the family has an equal share of the original stock. Few months ago the grandsons, President Arthur Pinkham, Vice President Daniel Pinkham and Secretary Charles Pinkham, got a temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry, 78-year...