Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remedy this, Peabody is seeking at least 72,000 signatures on an initiative petition for a constitutional amendment allowing the governor to re-organize the executive branch of the state government...
...peculiar irony that the House's faithless revolt should come just at the time when the Executive branch is beginning to understand the nature of foreign aid. The revolt is especially unexpected because the Congress--even though it rejected Mr. Kennedy's plea for longterm borrowing authority over five years last summer--had appeared to be educating itself to the newish concept of "sustained assistance...
...reason was clear. Small investors, bruised in Wall Street's Blue Monday crash, were warily staying away from the market. At Reynolds & Co.'s Chicago branch, business was down almost 50% from June, and the same was true for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith in Los Angeles. Said James Love, manager of Kidder, Peabody & Co.'s San Francisco branch: "If we were dealing with ten people eight months ago, seven of them have quietly disappeared...
...particularly painful because in the last two years many firms had invested heavily in new electronic equipment and personnel to service a flood of bull-market orders. Now, in an effort to cut swollen overhead, some were driven to drastic economies. In Glore, Forgan & Co.'s Chicago branch, all employees last month took a salary cut of from 5% to 10%. In San Francisco, the monthly take-home pay of some customers' men had slipped to a bare $150. Even in Manhattan, where the big brokerage houses can count on a steady, bread-and-butter flow of institutional...
...Business. One of the most light-hearted round buildings in the U.S. is a bank: the little Wells Fargo branch gracing the plaza of the glassy, curtain-walled Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco. Architect Peter Kitchell. design head of the bank for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, turns a deaf ear to critics who grump that the bank, with its fluted roof and carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated...