Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state governors seldom find time to visit at the White House, but one of them was among the first Coolidge callers last week -Governor John T. Martineau of Arkansas. He came as a chair-man with his six Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi colleagues on the tri-state executive board of flood control. After the call, Governor Martineau said: "We found President Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor...
...been found serviceable by J. P. Morgan & Co. They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William A. Mitchell, U. S. A., in 1925; how, as chairman of the President's Aircraft Board, Mr. Morrow mapped out the Government air program now going forward...
When Daniel Richard Crissinger resigned as governor of the Federal Reserve Board a fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 26), President Coolidge was obliged to look about for his successor. S. Parker Gilbert, agent general for reparations, was ineligible because of residence in the New York reserve district from which only one representative is permitted.* Walter S. McLucas of Kansas City declined. The President then appointed 45-year-old Roy A. Young, head of the Minneapolis reserve bank.š As hundreds of telegrams of congratulation poured on to his desk, the new appointee sat down to answer each one personally. "I consider...
...Edmund Platt already represents that district on the board. š As governor of the Minneapolis bank he received $25,000 a year; as a member of the Federal Reserve Board he will receive $12,500. This membership must be confirmed by the Senate before the President can formally designate him the Board's chief. *Here famed Robert Tyre Jones Jr. won the national amateur golf championship...
...function. Theodore Tilton went to France; there he was playing chess when a newspaper man handed him a cable which said, "BEECHER DEAD. INTERVIEW TILTON." For a long time Mr. Tilton stared out at the streets of Paris, gay with spring. Then he turned back to his chess board and said to the man he was playing with, "I beg your pardon ... is it my move?" The Book. To fit a name which is now not well remembered, even as a legend of ridiculous shame, Author Hibben has patched together, out of old letters, old sermons, the remembrances of friends...