Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased was the President with the gains he had been told he was making (see col. 3) that he decided to hold his campaign fire until October. He would then make at least two speeches in the Midwest, possibly in Minnesota and at his native West Branch, Iowa, in the farm strike area. There might also be speeches in Chicago and New York. ¶Thirty years ago young Raymond Robins was prospecting for gold in Alaska when he had a vision of a gigantic luminous cross against a snow-clad mountain. He fell on his knees, prayed. After making...
...Cleveland last week men and women began knotting themselves into a mob before a branch office of the Associated Charities on St. Clair Avenue. Most of them were jobless. Donato Ferrante and Ben Favorito, their leaders, told them Associated Charities were deliberately starving them. The crowd yelled their assent to direct action. They would raid the branch office, get the wherewithal for one square meal. Suddenly six squads of police trotted up, threw themselves about the office. The mob of 800 was about to charge when the police set off tear gas. The raiders fell back blubbering. Police clubs broke...
...Boston, Clarence R. Heath, 47, branch manager of Colonial Life Insurance Co., took cyanide of potassium, died in a hotel room. Reason: "Business Reverses...
...AMERICANS ARE SPYING IN JAPAN!" splashed out Tokyo's chauvinistic Kokumin Shimbun last week, exposed the horrid fact that pictures of Japanese business buildings in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have recently been taken by branch officials of Manhattan's far flung National City Bank...
...three genteel Eastern institutions. Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter society (1776), had already become nonsecret and purely honorary, with half a dozen chapters. Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. produced the next three: Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi, between 1825 and 1827. A Kappa Alpha branch was formed at Williams College, a Sigma Phi branch at Hamilton College. The earnest youths who founded these orders adopted Phi Beta Kappa's early mottoes, secret rituals, badges, grips...