Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of Abner Doubleday is Finn MacCool? Perhaps a first baseman Branch Rickey spotted in. Nellies Apron, Ark.? What's his batting average...
...both the Army and Navy are deeply impressed with the need for unity of the services. . . . There is a surprising amount of sentiment among these men for a single Department of War, with autonomous land, sea and air services coordinated at the top by a joint staff, with each branch free to pursue its own personnel and materiel policies...
...instituted the art purge was General Basili Pertine, the Intendente (Government-appointed mayor). His former occupation: director of the Buenos Aires branch of Germany's Siemens-Schuckert firm...
Brakeman Rodgers. For years hillbilly music remained a branch of folklore to most urban Americans - if they knew of it at all. But in 1921 a Kansas City-born folklore fan named Ralph Peer (then sales manager for Okeh Records) took a recording apparatus into the backwoods of Georgia and made some 300 disks. As an experiment, Okeh issued Peer's recordings, listing them in a special catalogue similar to those used for foreign language and "race" records. Within a few years Okeh's hillbilly list sold over a million disks-mostly below the Mason-Dixon line...
...hundred officers will arrive today and take up quarters in Cazenove and Pomeroy dormitories. Alumni Hall is to be converted into the officers' mess hall. For the first two months, the new branch school under the OCA command of the resident staff officer, Commander Ernest C. Collins, (SC) USN, will use the facilities at the two dormitories for class rooms as well as quarters. Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, (SC) USN, will remain as officer in charge of the entire Navy Supply Corps, Schools at Harvard and its branches...