Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engage in pistol duels with lawbreakers, alleged or real, in places where hundreds of people pass to and fro at all hours of the day and far into the night? Is the 18th Amendment so much more holy and sacred than the Fourth and Fifth Amendments* that the enforcement branch of our National prohibition department is justified in violating either one or both of them to enforce...
...68th (present) Congress, he faced one Sol Bloom. Mr. Bloom is a gentleman of career: "at an early age" he went into the newspaper business, then he went into the theatrical business, and before his 21st birthday had "built a theatre." Next he became a music publisher, with 80 branch stores, and gained the title of "the music man." He "later became identified with the Victor Talking Machine*" (the words are those of his autobiography in the Congressional Directory ). Still later he turned to real estate and construction; finally to politics. He is a 32° Mason and Shriner...
...Presbyterians will meet in General Assembly at Grand Rapids, Mich. Nearly half the delegates will be Fundamentalists in fighting, angry mood, 'determined to eject Liberalism root and branch. All the delegates will be faced with the necessity of raising $15,000,000 to provide munitions for the Church Militant at home and abroad. All of them will be confronted with the 20th Century challenge to the Cross. They must have a leader, what they call a "Moderator...
Evolution, which in any way discredits man's descent from an original Adam, was ousted, root and branch, from the schools of North Carolina (TIME, Feb. 4). National controversy on this action produced the following defence...
Because the men from the Maine college had practiced nothing but foils, the meet was limited to this branch of the sport...