Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school authorities were helpless. President Ralph Snyder of the Board of Safety, representing Mayor Floyd E. Williams, arbitrated the situation and the strikers won all their demands. Magnanimous, Winfield Eschelman and friends permitted three Negro seniors to finish out the year at Emerson because they had been there all along, but the rest were transferred temporarily to an all-Negro junior high school elsewhere in town. The strikers returned to classes...
...Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France and his miscellaneous guzzlings in bars and on trains elsewhere. But they had not read the Mayor's most recent wireless message from on board the Ile de France: "It was to get a broader and more comprehensive view of city problems and their correction that I have traveled many miles through Europe and worked hard in my search for a rest...
...that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington, D. C., in the War of 1812. Roared Mayor Thompson: "I will run that whiskered pro-British stool pigeon of King George out of town!" To do that His Honor replaced the members of the Board of Education with citizens upon whom he could rely. Soon the Board suspended Mr. McAndrew...
Eleven members constitute the Board. Six of them, a majority, could vote the superintendent out of office. Last week it appeared as though six of them, hearty henchmen of William Hale Thompson, would vote Mr. McAndrew out. The trial seemed but a protracted formality. But it was of interest, outside the courtroom because this was the first time a superintendent of schools had ever been tried in Chicago. The charges were insubordination (refusing to replace teachers who worked in the executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter...
...Locomotive stock worked its way higher, closing with a net gain for the session of over nine points. This reflected marketwise the fact that the Fisher brothers of Detroit, onetime owners of Fisher Body Corp. lately incorporated into General Motors Corp., had waged successful battle for representation on the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works, of whose common stock they own 120,000 shares, a controlling interest. Samuel Vauclain, President, opposed to the Fisher brothers, was prevailed upon to allow them two places on the board. The importance of their victory was. diminished by President Vauclain's success...