Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourth-generation descendant of Mayer Amschel, founder of the Rothschild fortune, Louis was the only one of six children of the Vienna branch of the clan to be an active director of the family business, the Creditanstalt, State bank of the Habsburgs, of which he became president in 1911. The Rothschild bank survived the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918, remained Central Europe's biggest financial house. In 1929, with a typical Rothschild gesture, Baron Louis rushed to Vienna from a hunting expedition, took over the insolvent Bodencreditanstalt, great Austrian bank, the failure of which threatened the nation...
...last few days the Cambridge branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League has been circulating a petition urging Mayor Lyons to sign the bill, It will prove to him that, despite his statements to the contrary, the people of Cambridge really do want the new housing project. In itself, the petition is a good thing, for it is a time-tried method of expressing public opinion. It will crystallize for both Mayor Lyons' and the public's benefit the fact that there is no opposition to the housing bill other than that coming from Mayor Lyons himself...
...culture. To most men spending three whole courses learning a "dead language" seems the height of other-worldly scholasticism. But this disdain is born only of ignorance, ignorance of our tremendous inheritance from Greek culture, ignorance of the importance of its ideologies, ignorance of its influence on almost every branch of the arts. Some knowledge of Greece is almost essential in the formation of an educated...
...Authorized $600,000 to continue the Monopoly Investigation, after hearing from Representative Hatton Summers that this inquiry, conducted jointly with the executive branch, represents a return by Congress to "normal functioning" after six years of subservience to the Executive...
...president of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers was speaking at the conclusion of the third annual conference of the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers. Attendance at the conference held at Harvard was more than four times as great as in past years...