Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bass-mouthed man in the neat blue suit was bewildered and nervous. Few men had ever taken a new Washington job under more awkward circumstances. He had become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...
...chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
...Congress, the old feud between the President and his legislative branch had flared into the kind of revolt that had sapped the nation's strength in two previous great wars. There Information Director Elmer Davis was a chief victim...
...cases be the same as those of the men in the Navy Supply School, but their curriculum will be definitely abbreviated since they are taking only a three months' course, as opposed to the much longer courses taken by the various grades of officers and midshipmen in the masculine branch of Navy Supply...
Died. Francis Henry Lengyon, 66, long time decorator to England's Royal Family; in Manhattan. He opened a Manhattan branch when he was employed by the late Whitelaw Reid, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, helped to restore 18th-Century Williamsburg...