Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarmed at the indisputable increase in expenditures, President Hoover had some figures of his own compiled by the Budget Bureau. With his Cabinet he considered anew the problem of Federal finance, ordered each member to "undertake a searching inquiry into every branch of the Government as to methods by which econ omies may be brought about." He was "confident we shall find measures for very considerable reductions of actual outlay below the amounts appropriated...
...Competition, then another 120 shots apiece in the main event (three days more). In their baggage last week were ten of the finest rifles ever produced by the Springfield Armory, specially stocked to individual measures, and 5,000 rounds of special ammunition designed by ballistic experts of the Ordnance branch of the Army. Said Team Captain Boles...
...existence of his brothers four- Ernest, Edward, Benjamin, Charles. Charles Duveen left the firm of Duveen Bros, years ago to start a New York furniture shop of his own under the name of Charles of London. Sir Joseph's son-in-law, Armand Lowengard manages the Paris branch. But though Ernest, Edward and Benjamin are partners in the company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers. He is president ("head factor") of the firm. Employes are unable to recall a single internationally important deal which...
...Perry had a talk with the most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of All England, ecclesiastical head of the Church of England.* The Archbishop told the Bishop something exalting: the Church of England has formally decided to recognize the Protestant Episcopal Church as the first Colonial Branch of the Mother Church, and to promote the Presiding Bishop from sixteenth place in the Anglican hierarchy to the seventh. Henceforth in Anglican processions Bishop Perry and his successors in office will march after the personages representing Canterbury, York, Armagh, Dublin, Brechin, Wales. The Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said: "It is a stunt, and an extremely dangerous stunt. The plan involves too much risk of human life to make any conceivable benefits which might...