Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because, I believe, you typify a distinct branch of American society, the bourgeoisie shall we say, I feel that you should make allowances if my attitude exemplifies a greater interest in the progressive Indian than in the canaille...
...Adopted a resolution to survey the Federal Reserve banking system, chain & branch banking, carrying speculative securities, issuing call loans to brokers for speculation...
...said he would do, Amadeo Peter Giannini, potent branch banker, founder of Transamerica Corp. (world's biggest bankstock holding company), upon arriving last week at the age of 60, resigned from all his far-flung enterprises. Testifying before the House Banking & Currency Committee, said he: "Branch banking is coming and you can't stop it. You can't block economic progress. You're against a stone wall. Small communities are drying up. They don't need small unit banks. Farmers drive over paved roads to the larger cities to do their banking...
...better guidance, the research division of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, has spent three years in developing a device by which the pilot may see his signals. Known as the visual radio range beacon, the invention won public notice last autumn when Lieut. James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his famed blind flight at Mitchel Field, L. I. (TIME...
...ever before as the preferential field. Last fall figures on the three upper classes in the college showed the same situation. Is it that Economics has replaced English as the reputed easy field? Or is the desire to be well prepared for business leading men into this now popular branch of education...