Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Secretary Hoover did not have to look far: his candidate was already in Washington serving as executive director of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch (the Hoover Commission), whose chairman happens to be the Under Secretary's father. One morning, just before a Cabinet meeting, ex-President Hoover slipped into the White House for a visit with Ike. When the Cabinet (including Dulles) met, it approved the Under Secretary's candidate: Cincinnati's John B. Hollister, 64, longtime law and golfing partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft...
...great backbone of President Crump's domain is 17,000 miles of railway through the most populous areas of Canada, and some 4,000 miles of branch lines into the northern U.S. Midwest. C.P.R. telegraphs, grain elevators, stockyards and abattoirs border the tracks. At principal stops are C.P.R.'s 15 hotels, including Quebec's famed Chateau Frontenac and the tourist meccas at Banff and Lake Louise. The company operates a fleet of ocean-going liners and freighters, as well as Canadian Pacific Air Lines, with routes to Asia, Australia, Latin America and Europe. C.P.R. also controls Consolidated...
...physics or chemistry or biology. It is all three-and much more besides." As one alumnus put it to Scholar Hallett Smith: "When I was an undergraduate, I majored in biology. But, of course, Caltech's biology is really biochemistry. Now everybody knows that chemistry is only a branch of physics, but it took me until my senior year to realize that physics is a branch of philosophy...
...Nathaniel, who begat Gustavus, who founded one of the biggest meatpacking firms in the U.S.: Swift & Co. Gireh begat Zephaniah, who begat Perez, who begat Jesse, who begat Jehiel, who begat Orville. who begat Frank B. Swift, a prosperous wholesale merchant in New York. But while the better-known branch of the family from Sandwich went in for ham, Frank preferred cheese. His big, busy Chelsea commission house handled as many as 60 carloads of cheese...
...letting her get the first pictures of his Antibes paintings, headed straight for Barcelona. The pictures of the early Picassos and the family apartment, published last week in L'Oeil, add up to some unexpectedly offbeat and unknown Picasso art, plus a fascinating introduction to the bohemian Barcelona branch of the Picasso family. "Come at 11." Telephoning for an appointment at the Barcelona apartment, Editor Bernier got a surprising answer: "Come at 11 tonight." Once inside, she found herself plunged into the world of a gypsy encampment. "The lights burn out all the time here," Picasso's niece...