Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very grave one is erroneous," insisted a Foggy Bottom spokesman. "The Middle East," President Johnson told a news conference, "has occupied a good deal of our thoughts, our attention, and the time of some of the ablest leaders in our Government ever since I came into the executive branch in 1961. It still does." As the new diplomatic phase opened, the effects of all that attention were not readily evident...
...long ago, one of the BCMC's component unions, the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO) (which has a branch at Harvard) won a State Board election to represent some workers at the Worcester (Mass.) Hospital. The Hospital took the state labor relations board to court. In a decision which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld, a Superior Court set aside the election on the grounds that the state board had no jurisdiction with a non-profit institution...
...meetings with the police and with Mayor John F. Collins continued on Saturday. Community agencies set up a common headquarters at the Operation Exodus office on Blue Hill Ave. At 7 p.m. Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, met with the Mayor at City Hall. It was reported that Collins agreed to limit the number of police in Roxbury, to end the yelling and name-calling by police, and to restrict the use of guns. One proposed meeting between organization leaders and Collins failed to materialize, although the leaders stressed the importance of keeping communication open...
...better part of the linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point...
...Leece-Neville Co., for one, zoomed from a 1965 low of $9.50 to $43.38 in April 1966. Another, Rowland Products Co., went from $8 to $48.75. The investigators' suspicions were aroused after the sudden collapse of Edward N. Seigler & Co., a Cleveland brokerage house whose month-old Chicago branch had been trading heavily in the stocks. And Kozak, as it happened, was Seigler's star customer's man in Chicago...