Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Education Board keeps an eagle eye for deserving universities, colleges, schools. It gives them, not buildings or grounds, but endowments for higher faculty salaries, new chairs, departments, special lines of research. It has also aided the public schools in the rural sections of the South...
...businessman had to be crude to be successful. And yet. the methods of that day fathered the modern corporation. Much ethical refining has been done, to be sure, as witness the demand of earnest John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
...Notably, Ida Minerva Tarbell, author of The History oj the Standard Oil Co., a thorough job on the seamy side. More recently, muckraking is not so popular and Miss Tarbell has written on the bright side, The Life of Judge Gary, late chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Corp. Critics wonder what she will do with the additional volume on the Standard Oil Co. that she is planning...
...personally, receive any of these bonds. . . . I never had anything to do with the distribution of any bonds. . . . I don't know anything about it."? Chairman Robert W. Stewart of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, in the course of testimony to the Senate Committee on Public Lands, last February. The Committee had asked him what he knew about the profits of the Continental Trading Co., which were converted into Liberty Bonds after a deal which Col. Stewart and Harry Ford Sinclair guaranteed...
...make good the promise you voluntarily gave me some weeks ago, that you would resign at my request. That request I now make."? John D. Rockefeller Jr., controller of 15% of the stock of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, in a letter to Board Chairman Stewart on April...