Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board were four tons of campaign literature, a reference library. 43 newspapermen, eight photographers and a group of the Nominee's best friends and advisers. He was bound, via Chicago, for Omaha to speak out on farm relief. He was going into nine states, carefully selected on the basis of their presidential vote in 1924. It was a dash and a drive to capture Kansas and Colorado which Calvin Coolidge carried by large majorities; Minnesota and Wyoming, which Calvin Coolidge carried by small majorities; Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska, which Calvin Coolidge carried with fewer votes than Democrat Davis...
Federal Agents. To the railroad station went newsmen, photographers, city officials. They met an incoming train. On board was George E. ("Hardboiled") Golding, "ace" of the Federal Prohibition Bureau, and eight assistants. Big, bespectacled Mr. Golding and his staff had recently combatted Chicago beer-runners with their own methods of shooting and blackjacking. This bravura policy is said to have caused Mr. Golding's removal. Previous to Chicago, he had operated in Cleveland, where he secured 112 indictments. The Golding fame rests largely on the Golding flair for secrecy. But never did soft shoe men indulge in such...
Even responsible correspondents cabled that all chance of adjusting the Rhineland matter had completely broken down. Frenzy! But after a while someone observed that a notice had been pinned on the League press bulletin board, calling attention to the fact that His Excellency the Foreign Minister of France was now quite ready to sit down and negotiate coolly...
...Fred J. Fisher, canny, was buying his stock with keen purpose. Revelation came last year when hard-bitten President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive roared that he would let no "outsider" on to Baldwin Locomotive's board of directors. Fred J. Fisher (and Arthur W. Cutten) made little rebuttal. But at the next Baldwin Locomotive board meeting Fred J. Fisher was truculently made a director (also Mr. Cutten). He controlled sufficient stock (as did Mr. Cutten) to force his election as director...
John Davison Rockefeller III, 22, was elected to the board of directors of a Negro bank...