Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another defendant, André Simone, said that he had established liaison with agents of the "Overseas News Agency," identified as a branch of the Jewish Information Service, at a seafood restaurant in Manhattan between 45th and 46th Streets. Simone asked the court for hanging. "I can be happy," he said, "with no other penalty...
Tobias R. Weaver, Head of the Information Branch of the London Ministry of Education, has been observing the American educational system for three months, under a Smith--Mundt State Department grant. During this time he has observed a basic difference between British and American school...
...Peterses' past before assigning them the book in 1950, that they did not realize that Arno Peters was a Communist Party member. To them, he was merely a former journalist who had come with "high endorsements from eminent German educators." John ,O. Riedl, then chief of the education branch, had seen no reason for not approving him. Meanwhile, 1,100 copies of the book had gone out to public reading rooms throughout West Germany, and Peters had run off a large printing of his own for sale in various towns. At week's end, the High Commissioner...
...barely got to bed in the Jones cottage on the edge of the golf course, when he was rolled out by another telegram from Harry Truman. The President, anxious that there be "an orderly transfer of the business of the Executive Branch of the Government," invited Ike to come to the White House "to discuss the problems of this transition period . . ." Next day Eisenhower accepted Truman's invitation, but proposed that the meeting should not be held until the week beginning Nov. 17, "because I obviously require a reasonable time for conversations and conferences leading up to the designation...
...brought to my attention that the movie "Birth of a Nation" was not shown at Harvard last Friday as scheduled due to pressure from the Boston Branch NAACP. A telegram dated May 2, 1948, was displayed as evidence of the pressure exerted by the association...