Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed the principle of the agreements threatens one of the salient points of the American constitutional scheme, for its takes from Congress the power to control tariff matters and gives it over to the whims of the executive branch. As Mr. Hull's treaties were published one by one, people whose interests had been vitally affected found themselves pushed out the door, denied hearings, and treated generally like unruly schoolboys if they voiced legitimate protests. Such dictatorial tactics may be acceptable in times of emergency but should never be allowed to get a foothold in the long-run system...
...extreme youth. He was not more than six years old when he died. The jaw contained 20 milk teeth, four permanent teeth. Dr. Dart placed him at the base of the human evolutionary stem. But Sir Arthur Keith, while admitting certain manlike features, put him on the same branch with gorillas and chimpanzees, though on a separate twig. After several years the lower jaw was detached from the upper, and the crowns of the milk teeth were seen to be almost wholly human in form. Dr. William King Gregory of Columbia, a world authority on the dental development of primates...
...Fruit Co. has more than 3,000 men working on 16,000 acres of bananas, it owns 137 miles of track. The principal Guatemalan banana road, however, is International Railways of Central America, which operates some 800 miles of track from the Pacific to the Caribbean with a branch down through Salvador on the West coast. Last week a deal was in progress by which United Fruit would strengthen its already strong hold upon International Railways...
With the decision to extend teacher's union organization to school teachers throughout the state, the Harvard, M.I.T. branch of the American Federation of Teachers adjourned to meet next Wednesday...
...constituent union of the American Federation of Labor and is the only organization of teachers in the country working in cooperation with the Labor movement. It forms a link between the professional workers in schools and colleges and manuel workers. Since its organization last year the Cambridge branch has grown to include a member ship...