Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the Deans received diamond rings from their St. Louis admirers. Penniless five years ago, they expected to make $50,000 from vaudeville and baseball next year. When Vice President Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals congratulated Dizzy Dean on winning the first game last week, Dizzy Dean wired a characteristic reply: "Many, many thanks. . . . Breezed through today with nothing but my glove. . . . Tell everybody hello. Henry Ford will be my guest in St. Louis. . . . Cook a good meal for all of us. Sandwiches and everything." Sportswriters, who gave the Deans their nicknames, were proud of their erratic...
...packing case (TIME, Nov. 6). Bishop Perry is an enlightened, cultured divine whose genial oratory makes him especially welcome at public dinners. He is also the first Presiding Bishop to hold office since, in 1930, the mother Church of England recognized the U. S. Church as its first colonial branch and promoted its head from last (16th) place in the Anglican hierarchy to the seventh. Thus might the Episcopal Church make Dr. Perry an archbishop for no other reason than that it would make him feel more at home when he marches in an Anglican procession ahead of nine archbishops...
Sordid indeed to a man like Sir Kingsley is the memory of how, when he distributed 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel nibs last year to branch post offices, more than 1,200 vanished in the first month. Undaunted, Sir Kingsley last week planned to distribute 10,000 more pens. But these will be bright red, stamped conspicuously with the monogram...
...County government should be abolished lock, stock, and barrel, root and branch," declared Arthur N. Holcombe '09, professor of Government, in a vehement statement made yesterday. He explained that the duties now administered by the counties "should be distributed among the various State departments...
...bills or bills of large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice as one of the 4,750 gold and silver certificates passed through an opening...