Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seriousness of the situation which gives rise to the drive is evidenced by the fact that 2857 disabled soldiers come under the scope of the Cambridge branch of the Red Cross. Of these the men to whom the chapter renders actual assistance, may be divided into several classes. In emergency cases, the Red Cross does actual hospital work, but with the vast majority of men the organization leaves this side of the work to the state and city hospitals, while it attends to another branch of service almost equal in importance to the actual caring for the sick and wounded...
...Such functions as these are the responsibility of the man's own community, working through the local chapter or branch. These local organizations assume the responsibility which has been placed upon them by the Government, to give men in the military and contract hospitals certain forms of service which are not supplied by the Government." Mr. Rotch went on to enumerate the many other services which the Red Cross took into its hands. In finishing he said that "aside from its other duties, the Red Cross is recognized as the agency equipped and ready to meet any great disasters that...
...drive to secure funds for the Cambridge branch of the American Red Cross will begin on Monday and will continue throughout the whole of next week. The drive which has been authorized by the Student Council, aims to benefit all disabled veterans of the war who are residents of Cambridge...
...tourists to visit us. They have worked out our geology and other natural sciences and helped to publish information and record facts. For the last two years they ran a steamer, dubbed the "Wop", carrying freight, cement, sand, gravel, and rock for buildings, and coal and supplies for branch nursing stations and hospitals. They have run clothing stores and lumber camps. A Princeton coach ran a lumber mill and store. They have blazed trails, built winter tilts, run schools and special classes, unloaded coal and other schooners, cut and brought out loads of firewood from the bays, run experimental farming...
...Harvard University branch of the Shifters is dying, but the true American spirit of fraternity survives--we now have the Ku Klux Klan. Throughout the University strenuous efforts are being made to secure members. Have you any spite to vent against the Catholics, the Jews, the Negroes, the Socialists, the Indians, the Chinese, the Japanese, or any foreign born? The Klan is looking for you. Have you a secret desire to wear a white hood and be taught to shudder at the reports of Klan spies concerning the machinations of "three groups attempting to gain selfish domination over our country...