Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tripe? Congress was not only pained but vexed, feeling that the press had gone so far that the prestige of the legislative branch might be permanently impaired. First had come blasts over pensions, soon followed by attacks on Congressional statesmanship, interlarded with denunciations of relatives on payrolls...
...Nights, with others booked for the near future. Next Sunday, through the courtesy of Messrs. Lindsay and Grouse to the men in the front line of defense, 2,000 sailors will see practically the same cast give the first non-professional production of Arsenic & Old Lace. Now when some branch of the armed services in Hawaii wishes to be entertained, we rub our hands with servile glee and say, "What'll it be, boys-ham or homicide...
...Fogg's library and photograph collection are unique for their lack of discrimination against Radcliffe students. In addition to the three-story library of stacks and reading room which is solely a convenient branch of Widener, there is a collection of 55,000 slides for class use and 147,000 photographs including a Spanish collection more extensive than anything elsewhere accumulated, even in Spain...
Already at war five months, America still doesn't have a uniform or effective propaganda policy. For months, much of the concrete work that has been accomplished in this vitally important branch of warfare has been done at Harvard by members of the Psychology Department. Seminars, to study morale here at home and the effect of Nazi propaganda abroad, are a creation, and a much needed one, of this Department. Its findings are sent to the offices of MacLeish in Washington, where they are tabulated in an attempt to gauge the amount of dissent and unrest in the country...
Letters to prisoners of war will be handled postage-free. They should list, after the recipient's name, his military title and branch of service, "formerly of" (Shanghai, Manila, Wake, Guam, etc.), and the identifying phrase: "American Prisoner in Japan, c/o International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland." In the space for postage stamps should be written, "Prisoner of War Mail, Postage Free." Similar procedure is followed with mail for interned civilians but, pending appropriate regulations, full postage will be required...