Word: branching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...took only a bystander's interest was careful, conservative Merchants Fire Assurance Corp. of New York, whose files held no direct policies on the $6,400,000 wreck. Officers were still congratulating themselves when - two days after the bridge collapsed - startling news arrived at the company's branch office in San Francisco...
...medium for disseminating its ideology--this is good because here the dancing really says something important to the spectator, and does not just fill the eye with spectacle. Certain naive ballet companies, too, are experimenting with dances on American themes. This may become a successful genre, and a vital branch of our culture. Until it does, the ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the Original Ballet Russe, and the other remnants of the Diaghilev troupe, remains here on suffrage, kept alive by a demand for spectacle of a highbrow, somewhat snobbish, sort...
...over the protest of airlines and pilots, who had found CAA's administration stern but effective, feared a change might wreck a great safety record. Last week Pat McCarran announced that he would begin a fight in January to make CAA independent again. Said he: "There is no branch of the Government that is in greater chaos or confusion or in which there is greater lack of cooperation or harmony than in the present Civil Aeronautics Board under the Commerce Department. Many trained men who knew their business have resigned. As long as this condition prevails we will have...
Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and former curator of the Nieman Fellows at Harvard, is scheduled to speak at the meeting. Also on the program is Raymond Gram Swing, chairman of the New York branch of the Council, and C.D. Jackson, president of the Council...
Four committees to further the movement were formed, in the first day of its life, according to Robert G. Nasau '42 of the H.S.U. Executive Committee, and approval was obtained form Raymond Dennett, graduate secretary of Philips Brooks House; Russell Nixon, instructor of Economics and secretary of the Massachusetts Branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League; and Tudor Gardiner '40, Class Day speaker of the commencement last June...