Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Festive banquet foodstuffs and funeral meats were served in Baltimore in the same week for newspapermen. Van Lear Black, chairman of the board. of the Baltimore Sun, returned from a long trip abroad studying aviation and was feted; John Haslup Adams, for many years editor of the same journal, died and was buried...
Soon the Bessengen toppled into the dark water and sank. There had been 31 souls on board. Eight (the captain said seven) had been saved by the Paris, 13 by the American Legion; Captain Ludwig Hassell, his wife, daughter and dog, by the Brooklyn. Six men had disappeared. They were all Norwegians: a donkeyman, two firemen, a deckhand, an able-bodied seaman, a trimmer. Newspaper presses roared. The rescued told their different stories. Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know...
...discount rate decreed by the Federal Reserve Board has had two effects: 1) to cause U. S. capitalists to send gold out of the country to foreign countries where a higher yield is possible; 2) to cause foreign borrowers to come here and take gold credit out of the U. S. where it is cheap. In either case the gold is going...
...damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants' Trust was closed in 1905, he, as receiver, paid back every depositor with interest in four months. He served on the New York City Board of Education, because, like his classmate & good friend, President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, he had long been identified with educational activity. For 18 years he has been a member of the Yale Corporation...
...hoax. Dr. Logan admitted she had ridden most of the way across in her pilot boat; averred she had done so with a purpose of confessing to warn the world that many of the recent channel swims looked "fishy." Believing that channel swimmers lie, she advocated an official board of supervision for channel swimmers; returned...