Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete medical care at moderate rates. The A. M. A. immediately denounced this cooperative venture as "unethical," proceeded to use the stratagems of industrial warfare to put the G. H. A. out of business. They 1) threatened to expel G. H. A. doctors from the District Medical Society (local branch of the A. M. A.) ; 2) threatened to expel all physicians who consulted with G. H. A. staff-members; 3) barred G. H. A. doctors from Washington hospitals. Cooperative members protested loudly. Last week they won a decision from the District of Columbia Supreme Court declaring their organization legal...
...like Actors' Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Actors, Burlesque Artists Association, etc., is a branch of Associated Actors and Artistes of America. Although Comedian Cantor is A. F. R. A.'s head man, the contract was negotiated and signed by Executive Secretary Emily Holt, Associate Secretary & Treasurer George Heller. A. F. R. A. has agreements with other A. A. A. A. branches by which, for instance, Equity members may also become A. F. R. A. members by paying half A. F. R. A. initiation fee, half dues...
...their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association but an advertising representative, which last year...
...centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly got mixed up in the Reorganization squabble. Pat McCarran had designed his bill to keep aviation well out of White House reach. Representative Lea's, more to Administration liking, sought to centralize control in the executive branch of the Government. Chief Administration argument was that since aviation is so closely related to national defense, its control ought to be centred where the President and his State, War and Navy Departments could keep an eye on it. Both bills were passed, and from joint committee conferences the Civil Aeronautics...
Named vice-chairman was shrewd. 58-year-old, Carolina-born, W. (for William) Harllee Branch, a Washington news correspondent who, after 30 years in news paper work from typesetting to editing, became executive assistant to Postmaster General Farley in 1933. Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year...