Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Jackson, S.C.), Armor (Fort Knox, Ky, or Fort Hood, Tex.), or Field Artillery (Fort Dix. N.J. or Fort Sill, Okla.). The choice is made by officers whom you will never see and on the basis of mere caprice, so there is no way of influencing your branch of service...
...Committee has established headquarters in the Touraine Hotel in Boston, A branch of the National Volunteers for Stevenson in Chicago, the committee's purpose is to pull the independent and nominally Republican vote into the Governor's column in the November elections Both the Harvard Democratic Club and the Harvard Liberal Union will work for Stevenson under the Volunteers...
...hustling as Founder Giannini, is the son of an immigrant farmer. He grew up in California's Livermore Valley, left high school after two years to become a messenger in Oakland's Central Bank.*Just 30 years later, he was named Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language...
Last week the "High Court" obediently overruled the Supreme Court's decision on the Cape Coloreds. Minister of Justice Charles Swart, one of Malan's top lieutenants, sat beside the "High Court" president, listened tensely as he read the decision. But two days later, the Cape Province branch of the Supreme Court struck back, declared that the "High Court" was no court at all, and that its pronouncements were null & void. Dutifully on hand again. Swart sat through a seven-minute ordeal while the anti-Malan decision was read. When it was over, he grabbed...
Died. Lawrence Mario Giannini, 57, president (since 1936) of the West Coast's giant, 531-branch Bank of America, founded by his father, the late A. P. (Amadeo Peter) Giannini; after long illness; in San Francisco...