Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentrate in Russian or Spanish there would be no preliminary detours. The barriers caused by such detours deserve more consideration now than ever before, because of the increased number of required courses that limit the curriculum of the average man who is either enrolled in, or preparing for, some branch of reserve training. To leave such barriers untouched now is at the very least impractical...
...function of this office to proselyte for any branch of the service; but anyone planning to make up his mind had better do so quickly. It takes time to enlist men, and an application filed shortly before December 1 may not get through the machinery in time for enlistment on that date...
Donald Nelson did not show the decisiveness that might have stopped the trouble. Chief controversy raged over one of Eberstadt's appointments: Thomas R. Armstrong, a Standard Oil Co. of N.J. executive, to be chief of his foreign-requirements liaison branch. Because Armstrong was connected in Latin American minds with the fight against Mexico's oil expropriation a howl went up from the State Department, from the Board of Economic Warfare, from Nelson A. Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs...
...Rather than lose his astute adviser, Chiang last week gave Lattimore a leave of absence to head the OWI's Pacific branch...
...Walrus-eyebrowed, cautious Branch Rickey, 60-year-old creator of baseball's farm system and its No. 1 exponent during 22 of the 25 years he ran the St. Louis Cardinals: the general managership of the Brooklyn Dodgers; succeeding extravagant, rollicking Larry MacPhail, his onetime protégé; for a five-year term; at a reported salary of $40,000, plus a bonus. The new Brooklyn boss has never watched a ball game on Sunday...