Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman Ivan Mihailoff...
...personality pervading the atmosphere of the entire Veterans' Bureau, shortly to be known as-give me time-Oh yes -as the "Veterans' Administration"? How about putting his picture on the cover? And, Mr. Hoover-how about creating a cabinet office for the head of the most important branch of the Government? We have never felt that General Hines has been given quite the public recognition that he deserves-not that he is the kind of person who cares a straw about it-a more modest, unpretentious gentleman it would be hard to imagine. Whenever he comes among...
Direct utilization of the airways by the two rail companies might take two aspects: the speeding of travel along principal trunk lines by combined air-&-rail service, and the operation of air lines where it is not practicable to build branch roads...
Alarmed at the indisputable increase in expenditures, President Hoover had some figures of his own compiled by the Budget Bureau. With his Cabinet he considered anew the problem of Federal finance, ordered each member to "undertake a searching inquiry into every branch of the Government as to methods by which econ omies may be brought about." He was "confident we shall find measures for very considerable reductions of actual outlay below the amounts appropriated...
...Competition, then another 120 shots apiece in the main event (three days more). In their baggage last week were ten of the finest rifles ever produced by the Springfield Armory, specially stocked to individual measures, and 5,000 rounds of special ammunition designed by ballistic experts of the Ordnance branch of the Army. Said Team Captain Boles...