Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying school, went barnstorming, had his share of crack-ups from occasional foolhardiness. After directing the aviation program at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition (1926) he was appointed Chief of Air Regulation under William Patterson MacCracken Jr., the first Assistant Secretary of the Commerce Department's newly formed Aeronautics Branch. In that capacity he issued to Mr. MacCracken Pilot's License No. 1 after Orville Weight had modestly declined it because he no longer flew. Col. Young received in turn No. 2. When Assistant Secretary MacCracken resigned in 1929 there was no doubt in anyone's mind as to who knew...
...radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable. In one or another of the Department's planes...
...Boston branch of the Committee has secured Polly Boyden, Authoress, Harold Hickerson, playwright, and Jim Garland, Kentucky miner, to address Liberal Club members in the afternoon before pleading to a large gathering in the Old South Meeting House Wednesday night...
...imported portable houses, opened a mortgage & loan office. To get his tenants to their homes he started a bus line. That paid too. Everything paid. He bought more land, planted it with fruits, sold it, collected from the fruit profits. He opened banks, bought ships, went into every branch of business that looked profitable. He bought theatres, organized his own companies to play in them, now has a monopoly of the amusement facilities of South Africa...
...Saturday Japan will hold general elections for the lower branch of the Diet, a body consisting of 466 members. The elections are being held to strengthen the power of the Conservative Premier Inukai; for at present the lower house contains a majority of the Liberal party which previously supported Premier Wakatsuki. This lower house, contrary to Western traditions, is rather limited in its powers. Yet it evidently has sufficient significance for the present Premier to dissolve it in the hope of a majority for his own party...