Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apathetic to mere law, the onetime slaves were glad to continue toiling for their former masters, last week, because Sierra Leone is so impoverished and undeveloped that many a free man cannot earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...rewarded with the First Lordship of the Admiralty (1917-18). Intensely practical, he soon secured appointment to deal with reconstruction problems as Minister of Transport (1919-21). Since then two industries have engrossed him: Dunlop Rubber, and Imperial Airways Ltd., the veteran cross channel flying firm of whose board he is active Chairman. On rails, on rubber, and on air his high achievements leap and lead...
...this?"Parliament," "M.P.'s," "Constitution"?is the ripe product of eight years spent in creating "what the worker wants" by Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, astute, experienced, intelligent Chairman of Dunlop's board...
Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Briggs, of Detroit, daughter of Walter 0. Briggs, chairman of the board of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies); to Charles T, Fisher Jr., of Detroit, son of Charles T. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Body Corp. (automobile bodies) and vice president of General Motors Corp...
Engaged. William Rosenwald, 24; son of Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., multi-millionaire philanthropist, of Chicago; to Miss Renee Scharf, of Vienna...