Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplement the recent CRIMSON roundup stating opportunities and requirements for enlistment in every branch of the armed services, A. James Casner, professor of Law and head of the Student Defense Service Committee, has further explained that at present it is impossible for University men to enlist in Boston for the Marine Corps...
...note: Lt-Col. Homer Saint-Gaudens, Harvard-educated head of the camouflage branch of the office of the chief of engineers, said in an article in the Military Engineer that the best camouflage officers, the ones who direct the workers, are "young erstwhile architects." The Boston Traveler
Sample of the Anderson technique: "The American brain trust, alien to and superimposed upon the land of Old Glory, is but a branch of the International Secret Superstate which holds equally Soviet Russia, plutocratic England, and Roosevelt's America in the hollow of its hybrid hand. . . . Roosevelt has pulled a brass band out of his hip pocket, and a concentration camp from under the coattails of the brain trust. . . . Roosevelt consolidated with Churchill in the simultaneous declaration of war upon Japan . . . so the American people have gone to war to save Stalin and the international banker which...
...most Harvard men, the Committee on Communication sounds vaguely like an R.O.T.C. semaphore unit, or a branch of Western Union; yet the methods of teaching English to foreigners which this group has quietly developed in its house on Kirkland Place are world famous...
...decision as to which students should continue their college instruction and which should join the armed forces was somewhat aided in England by governmental regulations specifying the number of men in just what ago group, who were needed in each branch of the service or in defense industry...