Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S editors will look in Standard Statistics, they will find that on Sept. 14 Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. received an initial payment of $1,500,000 on a $2,500,000 loan from RFC, in accordance with an agreement worked out and approved by the Board of Directors on July...
Things dragged on. Latin American diplomats dodged the issue many a time until last week. Then Pan American Union's governing board performed a judgment of Solomon. Ignoring both camps, they chose as the new chairwoman lissome Señora Ana Rosa de Martinez Guerrero of Argentina, who has no commitments in either camp and speaks no English, is not expected to visit Washington often...
...business, seemed willing to go on losing while its executives and union spokesmen bickered, belied each other, failed even to agree on what the fighting was about. Union wives badgered their men to get back to work. Union men wished heartily that "The Old Man"-stricken Board Chairman Walter P. Chrysler-was back running his automobile plants...
...usual punishment in Nazi prison camps, according to the White Paper, for even slight offenses, such as failure to salute promptly, is "twenty-five strokes on the seat, carried out by two guards standing at each side with riding whips. The prisoner is lashed to a board. If he cries out, the strokes are increased to thirty-five. Guards use all their force, sometimes springing into the air so as to bring down the arm with increased momentum...
Composer Rudolph Friml told a Manhattan newshawk of a "conversation" he had had with the late Victor Herbert via the Ouija board: "He says to me, 'Play five notes.'. . . I play. . . . It is Victor Herbert. It is his style exactly. Then Victor Herbert he says to me, 'Quite charming...