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Word: branch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three weeks of floundering in crisis, Fance had a new government. The new Premier was Georges Bidault, 50, head of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire (the French branch of Europe's Christian democrats). At midnight, with his cabinet posts already assigned and the Radical and Socialist parties satisfied, Bidault went before the Assembly and won a cushiony vote of confidence, 367 to 183. Every non-Communist deputy except one voted for Bidault; yet there were many who, with deep misgivings about the prospects of his regime, voted for him because they could not stand the floundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jerry-Built | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Eggs & Needles. Loewy's business has grown so large that he now has three working partners: A. Baker Barnhart, who has charge of all packaging, product and transportation design; William Snaith, who manages all department-store work; Business Manager John Breen. There are branch offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, South Bend, Ind. and London. All of his designers think so much like him that, says an admiring rival, "If you meet any one of them you meet Loewy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...decree arrived at St. Benedict's Center at 6 p.m. in a registered letter from The Reverend John J. McEleney S.J. Provincial of the New England branch of the Society of Jesus...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Father Feeney Is Dismissed From Jesuit Order by Rome | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

Approximately one third of the girls have already received placements in settlement houses, Community Service chairman Marilyn Covertly '52 announced yesterday. Other jobs will include tutoring, reading to the blind, typing for the Boston UNESCO branch and hospital work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 110 Students Sign As Annex Social Service Workers | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

Under a succession of competent heads, the band continued, but only as a good football season group. No attempt was made to branch out, and with the last strains of "Harvardiana" after the Yale game each playing year came to an official...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Band Marks Three Musical Decades | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

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