Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creation of that machinery had occupied all the days and most of the nights of President Roosevelt's first week in office. To Congress when it assembled one noon in special session he sent his first message: "I ask immediate enactment of legislation giving to the executive branch of the Government control over banks. ... A continuation of the strangulation of banking facilities is unthinkable...
Howard Martin Lawn '34, of Long Branch, New Jersey, has been elected president of the Harvard Menorah Society, it was announced last night. The other new officers chosen at the same time are: Herbert Wilton Beaser '34, of Roxbury, vice-president; Eliot Daniel Canter '35, of Brookline, secretary; and Edward Levy '35, of Brookline, treasurer...
...both nations that nothing but national pride and honor are at stake. While this psychological situation persists, there is no hope for peace. There can be no real armistice until the foreign investors decide that their capital and brains are needed elsewhere. Short of this, waving the olive branch is useless, however graceful...
...Although the powers given to the Executive branch of the government during the past ten days by Congress may not be constitutionally delegated, the Supreme Court can easily find a basis on which to approve the legislature's acts," according to an authority on constitutional law at the Law School, when interviewed last night. "During the past years, the Supreme Court has developed the Emergency doctrine. By backing such measures as the Adamson Act, dealing with the General Strike emergency in Wilson's administration, it was acknowledged that 'freedom of contract' may be abrogated in time of stress. There...
...Italy? Director Seefehlner had arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish a nice arms smuggling business to the benefit of the Austrian treasury...