Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farthest off the prince's union reservation was the 17-year-old Maharaja of Cochin. Last week he contributed money to the All-India States Peoples' Congress, a branch of the Congress Party devoted to fighting the princes...
What Durocher lacks as a manager is supplied by his wily and pious boss, Branch Rickey, known as The Brain. It is Rickey who assembles the circus, Ringmaster Durocher who snaps the whip. Boss Rickey has a great gift for spotting young talent, signing them up hastily, and training them wisely. In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed...
...Beat You." Says Branch Rickey: "Leo can't be found mollycoddling a situation. He has marvelous aptitude-whether shooting pool, playing golf or squash or gin rummy-but no classical education. His marks in deportment may not have been too good. He came out of a pretty tough neighborhood in Springfield, Mass. with great energy which boiled down to three words: 'I'll beat you, I'll beat...
...Branch & Leo. The shepherd of St. Louis' wild flock was Branch Rickey the Bible quoter, who dutifully shunned the ball park on Sunday, the day the turnstiles clicked most merrily. Rickey considered himself a molder of character, and Leo became his pet reclamation project...
...Snow Red and plenty of other Formosans at Taichu (five hours south of the capital) wanted more than that. She took over as chairman of the Taichu branch of the rebellion; her followers disarmed the local police, held the town for ten days. The People's Purge Committee added 32 new demands. Samples: an autonomous constitution, the surrender of monopoly controls to islanders. Some rebels even talked of a U.S. protectorate. In Pingtung, a band of them sang The Star-Spangled Banner as they took over the town...