Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They extend, with complex ramifications, to literally hundreds of state, county, city section and branch organizations down to the very roots of American society." The Shift Underground. Far more important than the open party is the underground. This has always been so, but is especially true since the Government's heavy attacks on the open party. Of the people who seem to have left the party in recent years, it is estimated that one-third have actually gone underground; present underground membership is estimated to be at least 10,000. The party began special preparations to submerge...
Last week 37 of the 43 Beefeaters still under warrant organized Branch 338 of the Civil Service [trade] Union. Even after the union raised its age limit to 65, four were ineligible (the oldest, Yeoman David Sprake, is 84) ; two others refused to join. Said one: "When you mount guard, you may know that nowadays there are no marauders outside the Tower and no prisoners inside. But you wouldn't stop mounting guard, would you? You just can't keep changing things...
Pollster George Gallup's pollsters asked the public, "Which branch of the armed services do you think should be built up to a greater extent-the Army, Air Force or Navy?" The answers: Air Force, 54%; Army, 11%; Navy, 8%; no opinion, 20%; more than...
...onetime subordinate with whom he has long been on bad terms, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur last week extended a small olive branch. Before a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS & FINANCE), MacArthur, now chairman of the board of Remington Rand, urged "firm support of the new Administration," and expressed the hope that "our respected President-elect" might safely and successfully accomplish "his self-appointed task" in Korea. The onetime U.N. commander also indicated that he might be able to give Ike a hand. Said he: "While it is well known that my own views have...
...country with a Communist government U.N. employees who are "prepared to conduct activities regarded in that state as subversive." This amounts to saying that the U.N. should confine its staff appointments within Iron Curtain countries to Communists-a policy Lie has generally followed in his staffing of U.N. branch offices...