Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definite organization of a Harvard Committee of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association was announced last night. The Committee is headed by an Executive Council of eight undergraduate and two graduate students, and an Advisory Council of three Faculty members. It will probably be included as a branch of the College Division of the Association, the details concerning which are to be published later this week...
...Partisan Association, in simple terms, aims to cultivate such a public opinion as will induce the present administration or if not this, the next one, to enter the League of Nations either with or without reservations. The membership in the University branch of this organization has already reached about 100, and more will be enrolled at the meeting tomorrow night. A membership fee of one dollar will cover dues for the remainder of the college course and will include subscription to a Bulletin which will be sent every two weeks. Plans are being laid for greater activity in the form...
...Before this article is published", declared Mr. W. P. G. Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, "the Federal Reserve Board will probably have announced its decision concerning the proposed branch of the Boston Bank in Havana, Cuba. The question which it must decide involves both the rivalry between the Federal Reserve Banks and the problem of whether or not Federal Reserve Banks should be permitted to compete actively with commercial banks...
...There are several features", Mr. Harding said, "concerning a Reserve Bank branch in Cuba which grow out of the intimate connection between Cuba and the United States. It is, in the first place, the only foreign country in which all transactions are carried on in dollars, and whose circulating medium and legal tender are entirely American currency. Moreover, the government of the United States exercises a quasi-guardianship over the island which makes it entirely different from any other available banking field...
Lida Gustave Heymann, Anita Augsburg, Frida Parlen, all of the Executive Committee of the German Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, sent a letter to Mrs. Lucy Biddie Lewis of Philadelphia, National Chairman of the United States section of the League, in which they stated: " We owe reparations; reconstruction of Northern France is a debt of honor with us. The French in 1919 failed in their great opportunity, when they might have forgiven us. Shall we fail in ours...