Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted to do is something for the public. ... We did it for the city. . . . This place is city property." Collected for the first night were such as Mr. & Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, Mrs. William...
...morning last week a group of ship news reporters and photographers rode silently down New York Bay. Those who were not cynical were sour. They were on their way to board the Mauretania. Their assignment was to interview and take pictures of John Pierpont Morgan, who dislikes to be interviewed or pictured, as he had plainly told them many times before...
Last week the Daily News moved to its new building on the Chicago River. In place of dinginess there is magnificence. Instead of one elevator there are 15; instead of five stories there are 25. A Board of Directors room on the sixth floor is dedicated to the late great Victor Fremont Lawson. Its fine dark panels were taken from his Lake Shore Drive residence, so that the Daily News should have a lasting memory of its onetime chief...
...Immediate creation of an Economic General Staff, (a MacDonald idea) modeled on Conservatives' Committee of Imperial Defense, to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister of Labor. This staff will coordinate the work of all industrial and economic departments...
...Monday morning the only grades ever made public in the Harvard Law School, the marks for all members of the graduating class, will be posted on the bulletin board in Austin Hall. The names are published in the form of a rank list...