Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grand yesterday afternoon said, "The attempt of Mayor Lyons to connect Harvard students with the work of the Cambridge branch of the Young Communists League has no foundation in fact and is merely an attempt to further embarrass Harvard University because of their appointment of Granville Hicks...
...began with a preamble, in which the President dismissed the campaign against his bill to reorganize the Executive branch of the Federal Government (TIME, April 4) as "organized effort on the part of political or special self-interest groups." There followed a letter, dated two days earlier, to a friend whose name the President said he was withholding "because he did not write for publicity purposes." In the letter the President set forth, in 1,100 words, not only his personal disinclination to be a U. S. dictator but his objections to proposed amendments in the Reorganization Bill. Loudly demanded...
...Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council (C. I. O.) unanimously endorsed the Democratic primary candidacy of Lieut.-Governor Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, urged its members to enroll as Democrats and to campaign for his nomination in the May 17 primary through the State branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League...
When the eastern branch of the American Psychological Association convened in Manhattan last week, no less than three papers were read on the Rhine question, all of them hostile. Small, vehement Psychologist Hyman Rogosin of New York City declared that...
...pages in the new Sears, Roebuck catalogue, only four advertise books. But Sears, Roebuck is a big factor in one branch of the book business. Since 1920 it has owned a controlling interest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (total sales-1,000,000 sets). First published in Scotland in 1768, the Britannica came under U. S. ownership 35 years ago, barely squeezed through its 12th, 13th and 14th editions, was often rescued by the late Julius Rosenwald when he headed Sears, Roebuck. For its 14th edition, it needed $2,500,000 to keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin...