Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical purposes of his visit. He reminded people that he was farm-raised in the days when farming was a mode of living, not an industry. He redescribed farming's transformation and its post-War predicament. He repeated his pledges: 1) for a Federal Farm Board; 2) a Farm Loan Fund; 3) a stabilized, autonomous, farm marketing system...
...while he awaited his opponent's move. When Dr. Max Euwe of Holland made his move and pushed the handle on the timepiece that began eating up the seconds allotted to Bogoljubow, the latter made no lunge for the seat which he had vacated. In his mind the board was quite as clear as though he had it placed before him. He was not worried. All he needed was a draw to win first place in the International Grand Masters Tournament, to repeat his triumph gained at Moscow three years before. On the 36th move he succeeded; achieved...
...Chairman of the Board of Anaconda, Copperman Ryan directs the affairs of the largest copper company in the world. Its assets total over $500,000,000, its working capital over $77,000,000. While Montana now yields first place to Arizona as a copper-producing state, the copper camp at Butte has disgorged one-sixth of all the copper mined in the world. And in 1922, Anaconda bought both the "biggest" American Brass Co. and, from the Guggenheim family, controlling interest in the Chile Copper...
...that his friends among the contractors should continue to receive school-building contracts, or because he wished to provide the imbecile proportion of Chicago's population with a practical demonstration of his patriotic campaign cries, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago last April arranged to have his school board oust William McAndrew, Superintendent of Schools, from office-after the Superintendent's term had expired. The charge was insubordination; the evidence in the form of certain history books in use at the public schools and alleged to contain "pro-British" propaganda. With William McAndrew out of office it became...
Retired. Harry Bates Thayer, chairman of the board of A. T. & T., after 47 years in the service of the Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board...