Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week began with no one, not even President Coolidge, knowing whether Flood Control would be vetoed. Almost like a portent, there went from the White House to Congress the first veto message* this session. In it, President Coolidge disapproved a House bill to create a part-civilian board to supervise national rifle matches. The President said he was advised the bill was unconstitutional since it took from the War Department a matter pertaining to national defense and established a nonFederal agency "to perform Federal functions at Federal expense...
...appointing a mediation board, President Coolidge averted a trainmen's strike on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient R. R. at Wichita...
...Amid cries of "Hear! Hear!" from members of all parties, First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman announced that the Admiralty Board has, in effect, reversed the moral implication of the sentences of "Guilty" recently passed at Gibraltar upon two officers of the Royal Navy who had complained against the shameful conduct and awful oaths of their superior, Rear Admiral Bernard St. Collard (TIME, March...
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, was the object of Negro hallelujahs throughout the U. S. when the Negro Y. M. C. A. established in his honor an annual holiday called Julius Rosenwald Day. For Negro welfare, Mr. Rosenwald has given some...
...Company of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Corporation. The directors who elected Mr. Keller to his new eminence were, without exception, gentlemen of ritzy appearance; all are listed in the Social Register; three of them were: George McAneny (architecture), Frank Presbrey (advertising) and Whitney Warren (architecture). The chairman of the board of directors is perhaps the most socially elect among their number. He is Robert Walton Goelet, who belongs to 19 clubs and who owns the ground upon which the Manhattan Ritz is built. It seems somehow typical of Cesar Ritz's enterprise that even the earth upon which...