Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he doesn't look it, Joe has blue-blood ancestry. His branch of the Goulds has been in New England since 1635, and he is related to the Lowell, Lawrence, Storer, and Vroom families. Harvard was the appropriate college for him, and he graduated "magna cum difficultate" along with Conrad Aiken, Gluyas Williams, Howard Lindsay, and his "most distinguished classmate," Richard Whitney...
...speakers at this meeting, which will be attended by more than 300 New England college and school teachers, include: George F. Zook, President of the American Council on Education, talking on "The Role of the Federal Government in Education"; Lt. Colonel Herbert G. Espy of the Army's Education Branch, talking on war veterans; Professor Hugh W. Babb of Boston University on the Russian experiment in government; Margaret Mead, Executive Secretary, National Research Council, on intercultural understanding...
They were the second largest women's service branch. The Coast Guard's SPARs numbered 9,745; the women marines 19,000. There were 82,000 WAVES in uniform. Considering the difference in size between the Army & Navy, women were carrying a proportionately far greater load in the Navy. The WACs, still struggling to fill their quota, numbered only...
...organized along military lines. Each citizen, from 21 to 45, worked at a trade of his own choosing. (The alternative: bread & water.) At 45, all were retired, and the years thereafter were the best and happiest part of a man's life. The retired workers in each branch of industry elected the managers of it, those still employed having no vote. The ten heads of the different branches of industry formed a council which governed the nation. They elected the President from their own number...
...Hubbard last week: "Petrillo has demonstrated to the world that he has more power [than the War Labor Board]. . . . We therefore have capitulated . . . to his demands that we employ men under contract regardless of whether or not we need them. . . . The remedy to this situation lies in the legislative branch of our government...