Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intention to share the water equally with California after deducting Nevada's share and a volume equal to what Arizona streams contribute to the total. Governor Charles C. Young announced that California despaired of reasoning with Arizona and proposed that the dispute be referred to an arbitration board of nine experts, including two Federal engineers...
...this point Nevada stepped in, asking California to be more specific and announcing that, though content with a 2% water allotment, she would insist on a full third of the lower basin power rights. New Mexico spoke, too, telling California that no arbitration board was needed or desired. Arbitration was the purpose of the Denver meeting itself, to keep the whole project out of Federal juris- diction...
...member of the Actors' Fidelity League; most of the Players are members of the rival Actors' Equity Association. They prefer, therefore, a member of their own group, Francis Wilson. To elect him, they must go to some pains, for Actor Wilson is not a member of the board of directors from which the chief executive must be chosen. The Players, however, could elect him to the board at the same time they elect him to the presidency...
...Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
Died. Elbert Henry Gary, 81, Board Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation; in Manhattan, of myocarditis (see below...