Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown...
...club. George Temple, now at the New Mexico Military Institute, has not yet been much influenced by his sister's fame, but Mr. Temple's life has been revolutionized. From his modest job in a bank cage, he was elevated to manager of California Bank's branch at Washington Street and Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles. The bank showed a marked gain in children's savings accounts. Last week he was transferred to the more pretentious cream-colored branch at Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevards. Mrs. Temple, who devotes all her time to Shirley, is dark and taller...
...annually selects 150 boys, indentures them until they are 18. Moppets as young as 6 are admitted. They live in dormitory groups of 25-to-35, obey a governess who sees that they take a shower every night, change their linen every second morning. As they grow older they branch out into larger sections under masters, live in regular boarding-school dormitories, enjoy open fireplaces, comfortable furniture, phonographs, radios. Except for Pennsylvania's late Governor Martin Brumbaugh, who came on invitation, no ordained clergyman has yet been welcomed within the gates of Girard. Many a clergyman, however, would...
...Palm Sunday last week, Pope Pius XI accepted a plaited, elaborately decorated palm branch from a member of the Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy...
...extravagant wife," who stole $67,490 to keep up his social standing. Salesmen are instructed to emphasize the dangers of under-bonding, to cite the case of a tobacco company cashier who was bonded for $10,000, stole $147,000. Then there was the case of the branch manager of a sewing machine company who indulged in padding his payroll, retaining cash collections, forging endorsements on checks, appropriating money received on sale of second-hand machines and keeping the proceeds of checks drawn on his company. He combined these misdemeanors for 50 months before being caught...