Word: branch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...they fight for a homogeneous public philosophy, Democrats may ask whether this requires a realignment of the parties. Galbraith caught hell for suggesting a purge of the Southern bloc, which would mean allowing the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen. If the legislative branch is in the hands of a conservative coalition, he argues, then the minority liberals must expose and attack the conservative power centers of Southern legislators. He excepted the Senate and, presumably, Senator Fulbright. The objective of a Southern purge, though, might also be accomplished through Congressional reform of the seniority...
...Wednesday morning two men and a woman entered the Brighton. Branch of the State Street Bank and TrustCo., fired several shots and left with $26,000. Patrolman Schroeder was shot in the back by a machine-gun fired from the getaway...
...committee to have jurisdiction over the computers, the House rejected them, fearing that the acquisitive "other body" would eventually gain primary control of the machinery. Thus the House declined to enter more fully into the computer era, long since inhabited by private industry, unions, the Government's executive branch, and soon-if the recommendations of Chief Justice Warren Burger are heeded-by the Judiciary. However, the House left unaffected the use of computers for what is called "members' services" -such things as mailings to constituents...
...Herod, in symbolic triumph. With the gift of Contini-Bona-cossi's St. Jerome, Florence will have one of the half-dozen finest small Bellinis to be seen anywhere in Europe. Every detail, from the folds of the saint's robe to the squirrel on a branch behind him, was imagined and recorded by Bellini as the concrete signs of God's grace investing the world. Bellini came 50 years before Titian, but 100 years before him Paolo Veneziano demonstrated to Venetians, in works like The Birth of St. Nicholas, that paintings did not have...
...from some Oklahoma investors last March. Some of it consisted of shares of Four Seasons Nursing Centers, which later filed for bankruptcy. Hayden, Stone's capital has been further reduced by declines in the value of other borrowed shares. The firm has chopped salaries, cut back its staff and branch offices and sought refuge by negotiating for a merger with Walston & Co. Before that deal is consummated, Hayden, Stone may have to find an estimated $6,000,000 to pay off certain loans...