Word: branching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with the "trainees"-Minister of National Defense James Garfield ("Halfway") Gardiner ordered that they must not be called "draftees" or "conscripts," and that all heavy camp work must be done by Canadian regulars. Reason: in the short period of training no time could be wasted. An emergency at Long Branch Camp occurred when the automatic potato-peeling machine failed to arrive in time and some of the men had to be asked to sit down with knives and peel potatoes...
Last week Barney Josephson opened an uptown branch of Café Society, smack in the heart of the swank East Side, next door to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. On the nightclub's two-story-high walls. Artist Anton Refregier painted soft-toned satirical murals...
...banks have increasingly entered the sales-finance field, by 1940 had upped their percentage of the total to 28.6%. In California, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia and Wyoming, holdings of sales-finance companies and banks are practically identical in amount. Reasons: 1) more liberal State banking laws, 2) branch banking, 3) less conservative attitude of the bankers...
...even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records were launched in Washington, with more of the same kind...
...late August of this year the President saw fit to send fifty destroyers to England in exchange for a few naval bases. The destroyers have made their journey and have forgotten. Whether the barter was constitutional has never been settled upon by any branch of the government except the executive. The Congress, supposedly the representative body of the nation, had to accept the trade. Mr. Roosevelt seemed to ignore the Neutrality Law which definitely states that the United States is a neutral nation and will not give any military aid to a warring country. Congress passed this act and Congress...