Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minnie Greenberg of Brooklyn "had trouble" with Mr. Greenberg. She sent their small son Oscar to board with Mr. and Mrs. Max Kashdan, keeping her daughter Mollie at home. Mr. Greenberg died. Mrs. Greenberg became a Mrs. Chaizel and sent for her son Oscar. But the Kashdan family, attached to Oscar whom they had renamed Max, moved 16 times to elude the mother, keep...
...impossible to find enough colleges geographically proximate to play with under purely amateur conditions, I am ready to suggest that we abandon our pretense of amateurism and come out open and above board for professionalism. I would be perfectly willing to print in our catalogue just how much we pay our pitcher, our quarterback and high jumper. I never could see any moral or other distinction between a man who plays a game for fun or for money...
...Government and organized industry, based on its lengthening record of high ideals and trustworthiness, have so multiplied the responsibilities resting on the office of elected president that a step has been decided upon to strengthen the direction of the Chamber"?the election of a permanent chairman of the board of directors of the Chamber. More and more, as the Chamber has gained influence in the affairs of this country, initiative of its policies has drifted toward its executives...
Judge Edwin B. Parker of Texas will be the first chairman of the board, to whom will fall the duty of "assuring stability in furthering the adopted principles and policies of the Chamber and of dealing with broad public questions which arise from time to time, such as volunteer presidents elected from the field of active business cannot longer in justice to them be asked to provide." Judge Parker, corporation lawyer (the Texas Co.), is now completing four years' work as umpire of the German-American Mixed Claims Commission. He will devote his full time to the Chamber...
...expects Lewis Eugene Pierson, new president of the Chamber, to give all his time to the organization. He is chairman of the board of the American Exchange-Irving Trust Co., 13th largest bank, in point of deposits, in the world. But because his domestic and foreign banking, industrial and public utility affiliations are so widespread and so intricate, one hour's conference with him as president of the Chamber will bring more positive result than five hours' conference with a less extraordinary executive...