Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. George Mason LaMonte, 64, Chairman of Board of Prudential Insurance Co., paper manufacturer, famed philanthropist, Democratic candidate (1918) for U. S. Senate from New Jersey; of heart disease, in Manhattan...
...same year a son, John Stewart Baker, was born to Stephen Baker. Last week, the directors of the Bank of The Manhattan Company met again. This time they elected John Stewart Baker president to succeed his father. For Stephen Baker they created the office of chairman of their board...
...After listening to Dr. Goodspeed, Mr. Rockefeller said that he would contribute $600,000 if other persons would add $400,000 to his gift. Dr. Goodspeed then organized cooperation, collected $400,000 more. With this the new University of Chicago was established; Dr. Goodspeed was made secretary of the board of trustees, then registrar, then corresponding secretary. Dr. Goodspeed wrote three books about his college. When he died last week he had almost finished a biography of William Rainey Harper, first president of the university which, without Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, probably could never have existed...
Crunch-crunch went pretzels in the mouth of J. Lewis Coath, president of the Chicago Board of Education. Mr. Coath was presiding over another session of School Superintendent McAndrew's "trial" for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.). Although Superintendent McAndrew was absent from the hearing, 17 Chicago school teachers, principals and district superintendents, were present to call him a "Simon Legree . . . a faker . . . a cruel task master," because he had obliged them to exact perfect answers from their pupils before permitting the pupils to continue to subsequent lessons...
...were done Mr. Coath, still eating, declared: "I cannot but remark on the beautiful sentiment of simplicity, honesty of purpose, and integrity demonstrated here tonight in the hearts of the men and women who testified. It is one of the most gratifying spectacles in the history of my school board experience of six years, and thank God for the real, human, honest people in the Chicago public schools...