Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would suggest that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...
...same men? the brothers Reynolds?George McClelland Reynolds the elder and chairman of the boards of both banks, and Arthur Reynolds, younger by three years and president of both. Practically, the same banks were one Continental & Commercial institution; legally they were separate, for until the passage of the McFadden Branch Banking act by Congress last session (TIME, Jan. 31), national banks might not function as trustees. Banks incorporated under state laws might do so?a condition which drove national banks to subterfuge. They created separate incorporations of what might have been their trust departments...
...answer is absurdly simple. No man seeking a definite information or wishing to school himself in some hitherto unknown branch of knowledge should rely on the Vagabond's tutelage. The Vagabond scarcely pretends to act as a substitute for the distributional system. What he has to offer is of a cosmopolitan nature in that it is composed of foreign elements, the filling of gaps in student ignorance is beyond the scope of mere vagabondage...
...Last, but not least, discipline and efficiency have been restored in every branch of the administration, a new spirit of enterprise, hope and confidence has been unchained in the whole country. Great economies have been realized. Fifty per cent of all vacancies in the Army, Navy and Civil Services have been amortized...
Cooperative Society memberships and charge accounts are equally good, in either the Harvard Square store or the Business School branch...