Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When country producers collaborate to improve their incomes, they receive the blessing of the U. S. government and loans from the Federal Farm Board. When city middlemen similarly collaborate, they tread dangerous ground. They may be racketeers...
...eight members of the Federal Farm Board settled back securely in their swivel chairs last week as the Senate, after seven hours public haggling, confirmed their nominations. The Comptroller's office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late, its members' first pay checks. On the basis of the Senate vote, Samuel Roy McKelvie, onetime Governor of Nebraska and the Board's wheat member, was the least popular Hoover nominee. The President had searched longest to find a wheat man for his Board and Mr. McKelvie...
...need such distinctions. We are where we are to do our duty. That is all." Followed a charge that Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had offered to wangle the election of Her Majesty to one of the Regency posts on condition that she obtained the resignation from the Board of Regency of her son, Prince Nicholas. "Only market wives bargain in this fashion," continued the interview, which was signed Marie R.* "It is not permissible even to contemplate any replacement of Prince Nicholas. It is even less permissible to make such replacement an object of bargaining. "If the Government really...
...might be running through the list, searching for weak spots to tear at. But last week Bear Livermore publicly scoffed the idea that "the little trading" he does was responsible for the break. Another ogre has been the report of a new bear in Boston who "sells the board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William H. ("Bill") Danforth, believed to be the biggest speculator in Boston and recently to have descended in person upon Manhattan. Aged...
...award came at the annual H. A. A. dinner held at the Harvard Union for the coaches, the Administrative Board, and the Assistant Deans, W. J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics, presented the medal, a bronze disk bearing on one surface an inscription, in Greek, composed by E. K. Rand '94, professor of Latin, meaning "athletics is the body's harmony". The obverse side carries the lines...