Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know of any venture in journalism in the country which has brought such a breath of fresh air to the field as yours has done. Your entry into this branch of literature partakes of the character of Strachey's entry into the province of biography. Your demonstration that informative articles concerning current events need not be melancholy is a public service. You help to establish the falsity of the notion that there is no royal road to learning. Your disregard of all known conventions of journalism, and of some conventions of etiquet, is as refreshing as a julep...
...TIME for Sept. 28, you had an interesting little article on the marriage of Princess Mafalda of Italy to Prince Philip of Hesse. You did not mention that Philip of Hesse was obliged to sign a document giving up all claim to succeed to the head of that branch of the Hesse family, so that he is really now nothing but a private German citizen. Of course the reason he had to sign this was because he was marrying a Roman Catholic and naturally the Hesse family would never acknowledge a Roman Catholic family (wife and future children) belonging...
...answer to Press inquiries President Coolidge made it known that he would accept, but not seek, authority from Congress to abolish and rearrange bureaus in the executive branch of the Government. He^ further intimated that, while he believed some saving could be made by such procedure, he did not believe it would be as great as is expected in some quarters. (Senator Curtis has calculated that perhaps $250,000,000 could be saved by giving the President this authority...
...considered to be potentially enormous. The question cannot be properly considered without considering it in its relation to the whole national defense, which has become so complicated that it may die of its own complications unless these complications are treated by highly skilled physicians, unprejudiced to any particular branch...
...appears certain that effort will be made to change the present shipping law, abolish the regional representation provided therein and make it an executive branch instead of, as now, an independent administrative office of Government, similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission. I wish to retire to be free to join with others in opposing such change without having it construed that such opposition was prompted by self-interest in wishing to retain the office...