Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House debating, newest and most pretentious branch of Debating Council activity, will be launched tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Eliot House common room as Eliot argues Winthrop on the Munich Pact. Highlight of this and of all future inter-House debates will be the participation of prominent members of the faculty...
...Advocate has decided to enter the plebiscite field, it was learned last night, as its officers planned an extensive vote on the "Harvard City" proposal. Meanwhile another local organization, the Harvard branch of the Young Communists, felt that "the misplaced humor of the Harvard Lampoon, by aggravating ill-feelings, only plays into the hands of the Cambridge politicians...
...This week the State Department made public a list of 106 registrants, mostly innocuous advertising and publicity agents hired for legitimate trade boosting. Examples: Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn (Dunlop Tires), J. Walter Thompson (Guinness Stout), branch offices of European steamship lines. A Manhattan public relations specialist, Hamilton Wright, reported drawing $2,000 a month from Egypt, $1,000 from Czechoslovakia, $1,250 from Italy (some of his advertising had been placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered...
...casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend places the public slave market-a matter of sore denial by Charleston historians...
Kansas City Southern owns 788 miles of main-line track between Kansas City and the Gulf of Mexico, carries coal, oil and farm products mainly originating in other territories. L.& A. owns 573 miles of trackage, 371 of which lie between New Orleans and Hope, Ark., with an affiliate branch running to Dallas, Texas. Most of its freight-quarry products, refined oil and sugar-originates in its own territory. The two roads, pee-wee but prosperous, meet at Shreveport, La. K.C.S. sets its total assets at $138,738,553; L.& A., at $35,514,566. In 1937 K.C.S...