Word: branched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial world, there are daily developments indicative of . . . creation of larger units. Gigantic mergers, capital increases, large new banks, additional branch offices testify that banking is following the lead of Big Business...
Banker Hecht views banking concentration, formation of chain banks, with the utmost alarm. Articulate, he found phrases: "Financial feudalism . . . economis vassalage . . . financial octopus . . . Branch banking is a monster of such frightful mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks...
...would like very much to make the acquaintance of a young lady who happens to be interested or engaged in the study of the so-called occult sciences, one who is interested in the study of theosophy, or any branch of mysticism. She should be about 22 or 23 years of age and a brunette. OCCULT...
Editors headlined Dr. Cadman as world's first "radio pastor." For the most part, this was religio-journalistic enthusiasm. As many a radiowner knows, Dr. Cadman preached from the Bedford (Brooklyn) branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his new and exciting title of "radio pastor" further lost significance when it became known that Rabbi Wise also would preach, that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick & Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, able Manhattan divines, might soon be given microphonal pulpits by the National Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches...
...large down-town department store has offered to open a branch of its Bos- ton store in the new building, thus enabling residents and their families added facility and comfort in their shopping. In the modern Beck Hall families may receive their friends in an atmosphere that will in every way harmonize with the University atmosphere without the hustle and discomfort attached as at present to quarters provided in Boston. It has even further been proposed to construct in the building a large assembly and banquet hall where graduates may meet for any social function no matter how large, furnishing...