Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critic-composer, of his symphonic poem, "Jurgen," which was given last week by the New York Symphony Society before an audience composed partly of admirers of Mr. Taylor, of modern music and of the Symphony Society, and partly of leering persons who, well knowing that the novel of James Branch Cabell is crisp with supposed "salaciousness," came in hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused by the book or by some...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...
Another high spot of the meeting was the declaration by Mrs. Nelle G. Burges, President of the Missouri branch of the Union...
...Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its biennial convention by that name. It was a great meeting. To it came Bishop Thomas Nicholson, President of the League; Francis Scott McBride, General Superintendent; Wayne B. Wheeler, its Washington representative; William H. Anderson, former superintendent of the New York State branch; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews (in charge of Prohibition); Andrew Volstead, onetime Congressman; Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissary; Senator Sheppard of Texas, who introduced the 18th Amendment in the Senate...
Rear Admiral Billard cited many examples of actual war work done by the Coast Guard branch of the Navy during the World War. It was in the convoying of troop ships, that the Coast Guard was particularly of service in the recent...