Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Spears, husband of U.S.-born Novelist Mary Borden, spoke he shocked opinion of many an Englishman when he uprose in Parliament to berate the prison governor. General Spears declared that Thomas Parker had unquestionably suffered from claustrophobia, the ear of confined places. Claustrophobia is a fact. Author James Branch Cabell says he cannot write unless e sits facing an open door. Many another person can testify that human beings do eel anything from a mild uneasiness to a frantic, sickening urge to escape when cooped up in a room, train, subway, elevator, cave, tunnel. Stirred by the Parker case...
...California's registration has increased 8% in the past two years. Its 1933~34 budget is $2,150,000 less than last year's. The loss will be covered chiefly by salary cuts of 2% to 20%. From a staff of 2,700 (including the Los Angeles branch) it has dismissed only about 80, of whom only 15 were instructors or higher. As in most other universities, positions vacated voluntarily or by death are being left unfilled. Again as elsewhere, the remaining faculty is being given heavier teaching loads...
...either Art or Fate that the head clerk in the London branch of J. P. Morgan & Co. is, like a most celebrated Wodehouse character, named Jeeves...
...consolidate, eliminate or transfer bureaus within the Executive branch of the Government to effect economics and advance efficiency...
...would have lost its title before this had it not had the advantage of a depreciated pound between 1931 and last April, for Chase resources in the last three years have shrunk steadily from a high of $2,600,000,000 to $1,700,000,000. In Britain, where branch banking is almost the only banking, the "Big Five"- Midland, Lloyds, Barclays, National Provincial, Westminster-control 80% of the business. In May Midland led the London race with resources of $2,200,000,000. Second was Lloyds with $2,000,000,000. But Barclays Bank lays claim to "world...