Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin planned thereby to test Secretary of State George Marshall's mettle, it got a ready answer: "In accordance with our system an officer of the executive branch ... is under a duty to answer frankly relevant questions. . . . The conduct of the Under Secretary, therefore . . . cannot be described as inadmissible, but was rather in line of duty...
...Boston, the self-taught son of a hardware dealer, Homer sold his first drawings to Harper's Weekly at 21, went on to become a crack pictorial reporter of the Civil War and to record postwar life in the U.S. from New England farmyards to fashionable Long Branch, N. J. But he found his best subjects, and painted best, in solitude...
President Truman recommended to Congress today a sweeping revision of legislation under which the Executive Branch of the Government has been exercising extraordinary powers pursuant to declarations of a state of emergency by President Roosevelt in 1939 and in 1941. This step was foreshadowed in his message to Congress...
...independent branch of the services...
Sixty representatives of 51,000 Massachusetts college and university students gathered at Smith College over the weekend and took another long stride toward formation of a National Student Organization by setting up a regional branch...