Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Small tradesmen especially swear by Hitler for the reason that, although he has not yet abolished chain stores in Germany as he promised to do he has blocked existing chains from expanding the number of their branches and provided that if a branch is discontinued it cannot be re-opened or relocated...
...United States Employment Service was created- a co-operative state and Federal enterprise . . . for registering the occupations and the skills of workers and for actually finding jobs for these registered workers in private industry. . . . We have developed a nationwide service with 700 district offices, and 1,000 branch offices...
...Having thus complied with family authority, he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Virginia, to establish himself in Atlanta as a general surgeon. Restless, he went to Boston for post-graduate study in orthopedics, returned to Atlanta to become the South's first specialist in that branch of medicine. Self-reliant Dr. Hoke made his own steel braces on his own blacksmith's anvil. With an income of his own, he was free to devote much of his time to organizing Scottish Rite crippled children's homes...
Last week Leo Belden was a Wall Street stock broker and Elisha Walker was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb, while "A. P." Giannini was once again busy spreading his banking empire over the western U. S., which is legally kinder to branch banking than any other section. In 1931 he accepted the loss of his Manhattan bank, concentrated on bringing little Western banks into the fold of San Francisco's great Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (with 447 California branches) and Portland's First National Bank (with 28 Oregon branches). Two years ago Transamerica edged eastward...
Strictly the Giannini system is not national branch banking, since each big bank confines its expansion to its own State. Transamerica functions not as a bank but as a holding company. Thus Transamerica keeps within the letter of the law of the 1935 Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation...