Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups. John Morsell, its assistant executive director, confided that the days of unified action among Negro groups, which made possible the Selma march and the march on Washington, are over. "In view of the sharp differences," he said, "unified action just seems unlikely." Some in the N.A.A.C.P., including Philadelphia Branch President Cecil Moore, openly challenged Wilkins' denunciation of black power. "What we need is a few more riots," he said. "I'm in full accord with black power. You name me a Negro who isn't antiwhite. This damn moderation will make the bigots bolder and bolder...
Fourth Reich. During World War II Jack served in the Army's chemical-warfare branch, was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in 1945. A Republican since joining Fiorello La Guardia's home club in 1932, he immediately got himself appointed research chief for the G.O.P.'s New York City mayoralty candidate, Jonah Goldstein, who was roundly whipped by Bill O'Dwyer. As a reward for his labors, the party offered Javits the nomination for Congress in the 21st District, an exceptionally HIerate, sophisticated?and Democratic?area which had attracted so many German-Jewish refugees from Hitler that part...
Like a Chameleon. It often seems that way. Durable Unilever has been a father figure in African enterprise since Lord Leverhulme, founder of the firm's British branch, in 1911 won a concession from Belgium's King Leopold II to develop a 1,875,000-acre plantation in the Congo. The company planted oil palms for its soap, later prospered by buying farm products from the Africans and selling household goods to them -pocketing a profit on both ends. Reaching out, U.A.C. also became the biggest merchandiser in the 14 former French colonies of Africa...
...students' attention during some part of the medical school experience. This might be called the "last chance" philosophy. If the student is not exposed to a speciality during medical school, he may never have the opportunity again. No one asks, "What difference would that make?" If he enters a branch of medicine in which the particular specially is irrelevant, he will not miss it, and if he needs the specially, he can learn about it later. The other argument used for requiring total exposure is that if the student is not required to take a particular specialty...
...mysterious form of currency to many, Eurodollars flit about the Continent by the billions, escaping a precise definition by economists and an exact count by statisticians. Most simply a Eurodollar, or E$, is an American dollar that has been deposited in a European bank or the European branch of an American bank...