Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth of his famed name, aspiring to be a newspaper builder of the nation, recently started two little gum-chewers' sheetlets on the Pacific Coast-The Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles) and The Illustrated Daily Herald (San Francisco). The young shoot of the Vanderbilt stock prepared to branch forth in a new direction with the traditional magnetism of his family. But the insidious voice of trouble raised its head. Could it be that he had not financed his venture in an entirely straight-and-narrow fashion ? Two ladies filed complaints against the Vanderbilt Newspapers, Inc.; Helen G. Sharpe...
...United States," he sums up, "are not merely an enlargement of our European culture, still less a mere branch of it; they create a division of that culture into two?themselves and the rest." In a series of those lucid, convincing and ingratiating chapters of which he is so sure a master, he presents his analysis of our habits and customs, and his reasons for finding them so different from those of the Europeans? particularly of the British, whom less original commentators have always supposed us to resemble...
...York Stock and Exchange Board." A century ago this new brokers' market had only 30-odd members and dealt in issues of securities worth only a few million dollars. Today the "Big Board" has 1,100 members and some 500 member-firms, which have over 500 branch offices and 2,500 correspondents' offices all over the country and even beyond its borders; its listed stocks and bonds at par are worth about $60,000,000,000. Excepting only the Stock Exchange in London, it is the largest stock exchange in the world, and its volume of trading...
Fifteen Juniors and eight Sophomores are up for election, the number of Sophomore nominees having been swelled by the nomination by petition of James Leland Combs of Long Branch, California...
...upon its second season next July. The purpose of the colony is to offer opportunity for a frank discussion of the most obvious and recurring dilemmas of modern civilization. It is run under the suspires of the National Student Forum, of which the Harvard Lib earl Club is a branch...