Word: offshoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the Caravan, youth section of the New History Society which is a pacifist offshoot of the Bahai religion, celebrated its sixth birthday with a ball at which was sung a new song called "No More War." Chorus...
...Independence, Mo., the Church of Christ (Mormon offshoot) wound up its general conference by unfrocking Elder Samuel Wood, onetime member of the Quorum of Twelve. His offenses: rebellion against church rules, "unChristian" conduct in Quorum session, heretical preaching that the Godhead is One instead of Three...
...rival shows last week. The Independents were organized in 1917 by John Sloan, one of the best of U. S. etchers, to emulate the no-jury shows which in art-conscious Paris used sometimes to approach the pinnacle of Paris success-a street riot. The Salons of America, an offshoot, was started four years later by disgruntled Independents. As anyone might have predicted, the fight this year centered upon the now hoary squabble between Rivera and Rockefeller Center, in which both societies were invited to exhibit. Claiming that Rockefeller authorities were certain to exercise censorship, John Sloan's Independents...
...Operator Morrow sworn that he would never sign another agreement with United Mine Workers. Before him on the table now lay such an agreement-a fat document providing for the unionization of all the soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs...
...been the changes. Yet the publishers would certainly know where to begin: with B for the Busches of Budweiser, unquestionably the foremost house of the beerage, a house which one year produced 1,650,000 barrels,* an alltime record. Adolphus, the founder of the Busch line, was the hearty offshoot of a wealthy Busch family of Mainz on the Rhine. He arrived in the U. S. in 1857, aged 15, served in the Union Army, married Lily, the daughter of Eberhard Anheuser who had a brewery in St. Louis, went into partnership with his father-in-law and built...