Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's 20-year ban against Negroes for anything but the Messman Branch was lifted last week...
...reason the St. Louis Cardinals give night sweats to managers of other National League clubs is Branch Rickey, a chunky, bespectacled David Harumish man of 60, who is referred to with awed hush in organized baseball as "the Brain." Branch Rickey is full of endless surprises. As vice president and general manager of the Cards, he whisks forth young players nobody ever heard of and makes stars of them; he sells established stars to other clubs for huge sums and laughs when the stars fail to come through for their new owners. To the fury of the St. Louis fans...
Early in life Branch Rickey promised his mother he would never play ball on Sunday, and to this day he has never even seen a Sunday game. Born in Stockdale, Ohio, he taught country school and then, with $68 saved from his $35-a-month salary, he went to Ohio Wesleyan, where he was a star ballplayer, graduated in 1906, still serves on its board of trustees. Branch Rickey is a working Methodist: he doesn't drink or cuss. His greatest oath is "Judas Priest." Not only has he an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional skills and foibles...
Already functioning within Don Nelson's WPB is a new construction branch (combining six former WPB divisions that dealt with construction) to see that the tough new order is carried out. Its chief, stocky, auburn-haired engineer William V. Kahler, 43, went to Washington in the old NDAC days from Illinois Bell Telephone (where he was chief engineer of the Chicago area...
...Libera (Free Italy) . . . in print shops changed with each issue from city to city. The Matteotti also uses three short-wave transmitters, for interregional communication, not for propaganda broadcasts. "Penetration of the regime has gone so far that one of the largest [Fascist] party organizations has become virtually a branch of the underground...