Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relation between the military and civilian services? "Our answer to this question is that they should remain distinctly separate. "The peacetime activities of the United States have never been governed by military considerations. To organize its peacetime activi- ties, or what it is thought may ultimately be one large branch of them, under military control or on a military basis would be to make the same mistake which, properly or improperly, the world believes Prussia to have made in the last generation. The union of civil and military air activities would breed distrust in every region to which our tension...
...been chosen as being the most appropriate place in which the picture could be hung, because the subject is one dealing with the war. Different soldiers, representing different wars in French history are shown seated on a bench with room for just one more. A Pollu, holding an olive branch behind his back, bows to the assemblage, and a caption below reads -- "Vous permettez-les anciens?" Jean Droit is the artist...
...Everything collegiate, the delegates felt, should be considered with reference to the purpose of the college, which is primarily intellectual. Athletics are secondary, or should be, and intercollegiate athletics should be considered only as a branch of the athletics in which the whole college indulges...
...Those charged with carrying the olive branch as messengers of that great American people, instead of bringing peace, seem to have carried out a program bringing conflict, discord and hatred among the two peoples which they were to join with the holy bonds of fraternity and love...
...extensive private telegraph lines which they lease to convey orders for securities to Manhattan. The 20 principal wire houses require about 300,000 miles of leased wires. A single large firm alone operates 40,000 miles of private-leased wires, connecting its main office in Manhattan with 12 branch offices and over 50 correspondent firms all over the country...