Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be recalled that the black sheep had three bags full, one for the master, one for the dame, but none for the little boy that lived down the lane. In last week's modernization of Mother Goose, the U. S. Post Office and the U. S. Shipping Board were accused of being the black sheep. The wool-bags were mailbags, and the Cunard Line was the little boy who got nothing...
...Post Office order was regarded in shipping circles as a thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound...
...Postmaster General New, for instance, would have no official reason to be grieved if every U. S. citizen went to Cuba on a British ship. Meanwhile, however, reports that the mail orders were reprisals against Cunarders persisted, named T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, as the probable source of the "discrimination." Mr. O'Connor is, of course, vitally concerned with the Cunard competition in the Havana tourist trade. Also, he has invited U. S. shipowners to attend a marine conference in Washington (opening Jan. 23), to discuss methods of meeting foreign competition...
...late Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, for many years National Committeeman, Mrs. Hert has been since 1924 vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, State chairman of the Republican women of Kentucky, and in charge of organization of Republican women throughout the country. She is also chairman of the board of the American Creosoting Co., founded by her husband, and is said to have increased its business 30% within a few years after his death. During the presidential campaign, Dr. Work, frequently harassed, found in Mrs. Hert a faithful fellow worker. Mrs. McCormick, indeed, is said to have described...
Bolivia-Paraguay. The squabble arising from bloody skirmishes between Bolivian and Paraguayan frontier troops was finally squelched, last week, when Delegates of both republics signed at Washington a special Protocol of Conciliation, setting up a board of nine judges to investigate, adjudicate...