Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although his aid to education bill is already on the calendar for the '48 Congress, Taft guesses that other items in the Republican social legislation program will wait until the GOP gains control of the Executive Branch which he expects...
...Rockefeller Sr.) was a latecomer to business. Princeton man McCormick studied art, archeology and music and frolicked with Manhattan's nightclub set before he went to work in Harvester's experimental department in 1928. He worked up as "blockman" (the company man in dealing with distributors), branch manager, vice president in charge of manufacturing, and finally president in 1941. Shy, quiet and hardworking, McCormick had a thorough Harvester education by 1946, when he became chairman. He also had a firm determination to bring peace to Harvester's labor relations, stormy ever since the Haymarket riots...
...though not, as he had first declared, "just because I wanna be." The question was settled at the Yankees' beery victory celebration at the Biltmore Hotel. MacPhail blustered in late, demanded a private room for his own party, began to celebrate with a tirade against teetotaling Dodger President Branch Rickey, whom Larry does not like. When one of MacPhail's friends defended Rickey, MacPhail punched him in the eye. His outbursts against his own partners made Topping so angry that guests had to break in to head off a brawl...
...opposite political lines have crystallized: on the one extreme the U.S.S.R.... on the other side the United States of America and England. . . . The Truman-Marshall Plan is only a farce, a European branch of the [U.S.'s] general world plan of political expansion. . . . The Communist parties should place themselves in the vanguard of the opposition...
...Frank Dobie kept unusually quiet, for him. He did say one thing: that he was writing a book about coyotes, and might have to include a discussion of the human branch of the species...