Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indictment of Col. Robert W. Stewart, board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, for contemptuous refusal to testify to the Senate all he knows about the dubious disposal of the dubious profits of Sinclair's Continental Trading...
...resignation of Myron K. Blackmer as Vice President of the Midwest Refining Co. Henry H. Blackmer, his father and Midwest's onetime Board chairman, is a fugitive from justice and the possessor of $763,000 profits of the Continental Trading Co.-money which apparently belongs to the Midwest...
...five terms (1917-27) in the U. S. House of Representatives, ever faithful to La Follettism. Brother Charles S. Voight, on the other hand, happily reminded people that La Follettism once meant Pacifism, and perhaps worse; that he, Charles S. Voight, helped sell Liberty Bonds, helped the local draft board, and spoke like a patriot "even in the German language...
...favor of the principles and practices of super-government as exemplified by the Anti-Saloon League, the Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church and by their ancillary organization, the late, unlamented Ku Klux Klan...
...correspondents who questioned him about the British Board of Film Censors of which he has been chairman for 11 years (see COMMONWEALTH) he said: "First of all we tolerate no propaganda. . . . Secondly, we recently ruled against the Edith Cavell picture Dawn because it was too warlike. I am told it cost ?35,000. It's not the war spirit that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit...