Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his entrance into banking he put his bank through many mergers from which Manufacturers Trust evolved, continued growing. He is proud of his branch system, as each branch is equipped as a complete unit with all services. Each of the four banks involved in the merger has many branches, and if these are retained Banker Jonas will head a 148-branch system, largest in the New York area. Even if conflicting branches are eliminated, the total number will probably be in excess of Bank of Manhattan...
...pilot would be liable only for violation of the Federal regulations against low flying (minimum, 1,000 ft. over cities, or towns or congested areas; 500 ft. elsewhere) and the dropping of objects from aircraft (maximum penalty: $500 fine and revocation of license). Last week the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce considered the problem "unofficially" presented to it by a recent conference of prison wardens at Columbus, Ohio. Possible solution: creation of "safe zones," barred to aircraft, over all penal institutions...
...Harvard University Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will have its first meeting of the year tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Pierce Hall 202. A short business session is to be followed by two student talks. P. R. Lincoln '31 will speak on "A Westinghouse Network Relay" and R. H. Norris 1G will talk on "Research Engineering." The Harvard branch of the Institute is organized to allow students of Electrical Engineering in the Engineering School to become acquainted with outside engineering organizations and electrical problems confronting manufacturing concerns...
...first appearance of the newspaper brought out by the Harvard Socialist Club should at least serve to bring this branch of activities to the public eye. It remains to be seen whether a sufficient demand for the paper or its own journalistic merits warrant its existence but its mere appearance shows that Socialism is the only branch of politics in which any active undergraduate interest is now being shown at Harvard. This does not verify the inherent goodness or evil of the Marxian doctrines, but it does indicate the Republican and Democratic platforms no longer contain anything worth disputing...
...student in the law school more than in any other branch of the University needs the advantages of that free and easy association and the exchange of ideas with his fellows, which only thrives where men live and eat together intimately and on comparatively equal terms. The situation is now manifestly unfair with the richer men living in luxurious apartments and those not quite so well off scattered in all sorts of lodging houses. Similarly with the eating question; those men with friends and sufficient means eat regularly at law clubs or together in certain restaurants, but the many...