Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burbank, Calif., rain seeped through the roof of the arsenal on the First National lot, saturated smoke bombs causing a chemical reaction that set off the dynamite, shells, grenades, stored there for mimic warfare. A beaver board French village outside, three workmen, and $40,000 worth of equipment blew up fanwise without hurting Corinne Griffith and 40 actors and actresses at work nearby...
...Chancellor Ignaz Seipel of Austria cabled Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Centennial's Advisory Board, greeted Schubert week as "the finest sign of the cultural and spiritual unity of America and Austria...
Morgan Ire. On board also, and the especial charge of Mr. Morgan, was Miss Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of Ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow. Rumors that Miss Morrow, 25, or her sister, Anne, 22, was to marry Col. Lindbergh had been printed. Lindbergh was a guest of Ambassador Morrow in Mexico City. The ship-news reporters were instructed to ask Miss Morrow all about...
...York, succeeding the late Benjamin Strong. Mr. Harrison is an alumnus of Yale (1910) and of Harvard Law School. In 1913 he was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet with the hearty approval of the entire banking community here . . . have the additional advantage of continuing...
Died. George Henry Jones, 56, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, of Pelham, N. Y.; from intestinal obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...