Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends of the League's judicial branch, the World Court, were chagrined last week to realize how completely the theoretically dispassionate judges of the court had split into political cliques in denying Austria and Germany's right to a Customs Union (TIME. March 30 et seq.). The vote...
...called "pot-hunters." Accustomed to Central American rain and slime, they did not seem to mind the early bad weather, won more cups than any other unit. Equally acclimatized to tropic sun glare, they won the team match for the second consecutive year, for the eleventh time. The only branch that consistently gives the Marines a run for their money is the Infantry, which still holds the match record of 2,838 out of a possible 3,000, established...
...Railroader Loree and his whole D&H system. This he did with his cousin Philip Wager Lowry, a young lawyer so astute that he kept Belle Livingstone out of trouble for many a month. During the hearings Mr. Loree's men painted a pathetic picture of their Ausable branch line. One train, they claimed, made 50 round trips without a passenger. An average trip netted only two fares...
...Country-Right-Or-Wrong speech runs in the Tribune's massed-head as its slogan. When Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune, made his annual inspection visit, someone was told off to stand in front of the score board. Last week Publisher McCormick, inspecting his Paris branch, had other things to think of beside blackboards. He learned that his European paper had been wizened to its winter size (eight and twelve pages) all summer, that the competing U.S. daily, the Paris Herald, had been light too but was distributing 34,000 net paid copies to the Tribune...
Exiled from Paris by his doctors to avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...