Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obscure in its foundation, the Anti-Saloon League today is one of the nation's most powerful organizations. Wets have termed it the Fourth Branch of the Government (legislative, judicial and executive being the other three); have roared against its "invisible power." While its founders were meeting in Oberlin, its present General Counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, was announcing a funding-program of $300,000 a year for the next two years. Denying that this money ($600,000 in all) was to be used against Wet presidential candidates, Mr. Wheeler said that only the "moderate sum" of $50,000 would...
...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
...SHOW?McCready Huston?Scribner ($2). With the edge of his desire for adventurous living dulled by environment, Branch Diversey found himself, at the outset of the War, an onlooker at life. Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells...
...alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice in the broad sense impossible. Turning from the impotent courts, the advocates of Massachusetts justice--that part of them who thought it in danger--appealed to the executive branch to save the judiciary from itself...
...richest field in which to seek new industries is indicated by two half-page advertisements published in Boston newspapers recently. One is by the Alabama Power Co. . . . inviting New England textiles to that state. The other, published by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, invites New England industries to establish branch plants and distribution agencies in Atlanta...