Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge heard his support of commercial aviation praised by retired Major Lester D. Gardner, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. "You harmonized differences of opinion," said Major Gardner, "and replaced confusion with orderly discussion through the agency of the Aircraft Board under the chairmanship of Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...trip will extend as far west as Des Moines, Iowa, and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Two teams will leave at the same time, one for the western tour, the other for the southern trip. The teams will be chosen during the first week in March by a board of judges which will probably include Celian Ufford '19, instructor in public speaking at Harvard, and E. M. Rowe '27. Both are coaches of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges will choose the team first of all upon their knowledge of the debators' ability, as evidenced in former debates...
...exact conclusions will be known due to the diverse nature of the replies received from business men. It is possible that tardy returns of questionnaires may swell the total considerably beyond its present sum. Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have been aided in the present survey by an advisory board composed of J. H. Barnes, president of the American Chamber of Commerce, James Bell, president of the Washburn-Crosby Company, W. S. Gifford '05, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and many other well known business leaders...
Round 2. Mr. Rockefeller Jr., a minority stockholder in Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, examined Col. Stewart's testimony, talked with him, asked him to resign as chairman of the board. According to Mr. Rockefeller Jr., Col. Stewart promised to comply with this request. Nine months passed and Col. Stewart did not resign, in fact refused to resign. Mr. Rockefeller Jr. sailed for Egypt last fortnight, but left behind him a letter to stockholders, expressing loss of confidence in Col. Stewart and asking for proxies to oust him. In Chicago, Col. Stewart replied: "If the Rockefellers want to fight...
Tentative plans for the new building which will house the Institute of Biology were announced yesterday by Oakes Ames '98, chairman of the committee of biologists who are working on the proposed structure, toward which the International Education Board recently contributed $2,000,000, with a promise of an additional $1,000,000 when the University shall have raised $3,000,000 for endowment...