Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leica cameras, it took pains to see that E. Leitz did not fall back into the hands of its German parent, Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar (TIME, June 16). The Justice Department remembered what had happened after World War I. Then Alfred Traeger, the former manager of the U.S. branch of Leitz (also seized by the Government in World War I), bought the company from the Government's alien property division. By the mid-1930s, Germany's Leitz again owned the U.S. company. This time, the Government barred any but U.S. citizens from bidding for the company and sold...
...make sure things are going right. Last spring, on a trip that took him to eight countries in the Near and Far East in 39 days, Allyn worked hard, as usual, to "make the people who work for you a part of your family.'' At each branch office, he gave a dinner for all the local employees. When his Singapore manager blanched at the idea, pointing out that the Mohammedan and Hindu workers would have to eat different food and be served by members of their respective religions, Allyn ordered separate tables, kitchens and waiters so the dinner...
Whatever the reasons for State's timid concern over "security risks," they are ill-founded. The fact that the Department is simply frightened, while the McCarthys are demagogues, is no argument on behalf of State, for the executive branch can wield more power more quickly than a United States Senator. So far during the last few months that power has been used to the nation's detriment, and election or no election, we hope that those who operate State will soon regain their courage...
...CRIMSON is divided into four boards: news, editorial, business, and photographic. Although candidates work mainly on the board they choose, those who are elected can branch out into any or all of the other three departments...
Despite the fact that many CRIMSON editors end up in some branch of the writing profession, the majority graduate to such positions as doctor, lawyer, businessmen, president of Harvard (James Bryant Conant '14) and president of the United States (Franklin D. Roosevelt '04). For those with literary aspirations who are more attracted to local magazines it is pointed out that for the past three years the CRIMSON has won the Dana Reed award for the best place of writing in an undergraduate publication...