Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribed. The American Red Cross sought $5,000,000. Two army transports carrying a total of 1,200 tons of food were diverted to Porto Rico. Also to Porto Rico went the naval supply ship Bridge, loaded in New York with 3,490 tons of miscellaneous supplies. On board the San Lorenzo, sailing with ten days provisions for 100,000 people was Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum and his staff, who were to have complete supervision of relief...
...James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Party, a manifesto was issued, last week, declaring that the Party will champion "reform of the Bank of England" as a leading issue in the 1929 election. The "reform" envisions Labor representation on the Bank of England's omnipotent Governing Board...
...chance the Board was in session, last week, and a new shareholder, Mr. Hargreaves, had the temerity to propose, not that "Labor" should be represented, but merely that the heads of Britain's greatest commercial banks, the "Big Five,"* should sit on the Bank of England's Board...
Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...
...Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling Kreuger & Toll...