Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill to reorganize the executive branch of the Government, creating a new Cabinet post for a Department of Education and Relief...
Last week, Mr. Chapman answered Mr. Cram: "I refer you to the history of the papacy. . . . Let us look about us. We see the Roman Catholic Church in every branch of its discipline, whether in its universities, seminaries, schools, monasteries, convents or in the parochial commands that are read aloud in its churches, openly drilling its adherents into contempt for American institutions and especially proclaiming its intention to control our education . . . With regard to the Board of Fellows of Harvard ... I call your attention to the fact that Bishop Lawrence has not yet noticed my letter...
...have recently appointed 15 commodity committees to which have been assigned the task of getting together the total requirements of all supply branches for certain assigned commodities. Having ascertained the total requirements, the committee submits them to a designated supply branch. It is the duty of this branch to maintain contact with the industry and to make a plan for procuring the commodity in time of emergency. This plan is then cleared by the commodity committee and, when satisfactory, becomes the procurement plan for the War Department for the commodity...
...Congress, that the Prohibition Unit be transferred from the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. The other, the Anti-Saloon League, urged the President to expedite the passage of the Cramton Bill, which would set up the Unit as an independent branch of the Treasury Department...
...Anti-Saloon League, headed by Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago and including Bishop James Cannon of Washington, D. C., and Wayne B. Wheeler, paid a business call on President Coolidge. They wanted the Cramton Bill made law. The Cramton Bill would set up the Prohibition Unit as a branch of the Treasury Department independent of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This is in accordance with the announced belief of the League that Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair has hampered the work of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Moreover, the bill would remove the control of industrial alcohol from the Bureau of Internal...