Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King-Emperor moved three chessmen upon the board of State, and in a flash one was taken by an unseen player, Death. The coincidence, startling, roused keen interest in the three august chessmen...
Clearly it was high time for Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, to speak out. Addressing the Diocesan Board of Rome, he prefaced his remarks thus: "Sad, beloved Sons, are the things we come to tell...
...Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...
...many, for the Grand National is not a smart race but just a dangerous and famous one. Sir Thomas Royden of the Cunard line was there. He had ordered the liner Scythia into dock at Liverpool so that people who wanted to see the race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest and was now sitting with Queen Thuraya in the Earl of Derby's box. It was a big week for him and he didn't want to miss anything. Howard Bruce of Maryland, owner of Billy Barton...
...idea was good; the trust company was formed with the liveliest and most aggressive young men of New York's financial district on its board of directors. Mr. Davison's banking sagacity and charm had brought them together. He acted as their chairman; Edmund C. Converse of the Liberty National Bank, where ten years before Davison had himself got his first important Manhattan banking job, went to the Bankers Trust as president. Thomas W. Lament was secretary & treasurer...