Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left leaderless when President Roosevelt turned all his energies to the NRA crisis, Congress last week gave a prime demonstration of its inability to function as an independent branch of the U. S. Government...
...compromise. He would agree to arbitrate the Abyssinian question-in principle-if Britain and France would let him continue to send troops to Africa. Italy was perfectly agreeable to Abyssinia's two chosen arbitrators: Professor Albert de la Pradelle of France and Professor Pitman Benjamin Potter of Long Branch, N.J., onetime instructor in political science at Harvard and in history at Yale...
Most spectacular members of the French branch of the House of Rothschild are paunchy Baron Maurice ("Momo") who was once unseated from the French Assembly for flagrant vote-buying, and gaunt Baron James ("Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built...
President Conant's move is in line with his principle of broadening the scope of learning and scholarship at Harvard and with the study of the history of science as a branch of higher learning as the result of the work of such men as Professer Thorndike at Columbia, Dr. Henderson and Dr. Sarton at Harvard. The now announcement does not reveal "the superficial character of University policy." In fact, it is even to be hoped that some day undergraduates may concentrate in the Department of the History of Science and Learning. George L. Haskins...
...Most people had never heard of Canada Dry ginger ale and the U. S. pop business had no chic when, in 1923, Parry Borland Saylor became head of the U. S. branch of Canada Dry Co. of Canada. A sharp, aggressive onetime tire salesman, he made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag...