Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rebuilt Cabinet. No President in history has given more attention to efficient organization and delegation of work in the executive branch. Under the Eisenhower reorganization, all major decisions funnel up to the President through a whole chart of special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration...
Justice Jackson's view of the Court's role is notably original because it stresses the limitations, constitutional and practical, of the Judicial branch. The Supreme Court, says Jackson, is not a policy-making branch, and its power has been vastly over-estimated by those whose knowledge and experience of the Court's function is limited to the Roosevelt "court packing" controversy. Broad though the Court's discretion may be in times of national emergency, its power is severely limited in the ordinary course of events...
...TIME'S STATEMENT IN ITS SEPT. 12 ISSUE THAT FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK'S HONG KONG BRANCH "STARTED TO HIRE NATIVE WORKERS WHENEVER POSSIBLE, BUT SLOWED DOWN WHEN IT FOUND THAT IT WAS LOSING ITS IDENTITY AS AN AMERICAN BANK SELLING AMERICAN...
Three years ago, shortly before the composer's death in Russia, an employee in the Paris branch of British Music Publishers Boosey & Hawkes found the manuscript in the basement. Last week the work finally had its stage premiere at Venice's International Music Festival...
...more experts in finance and business. ¶ Robert Hugh Johnson. 56, moved up from first vice president to president of Ingersoll-Rand Co., biggest U.S. maker of industrial machinery. Engineer Johnson, a one-company man, joined Ingersoll-Rand in 1924 after leaving M.I.T. He became manager of the Houston branch in 1930, moved steadily through local offices. In 1939 he became assistant vice president and in 1955 first vice president...