Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, unassuming man-whose grammar is something less than perfect ("I never had no time for hobbies") but whose 37 years in the catch-as-catch-can grain brokerage business have made him widely known as the "honest Irishman"-was last week elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade...
John Gratin McCarthy, the "honest Irishman," went to work for a Board of Trade firm as messenger boy in 1903. He was 13 at the time and used to sneak out the back door of his home so the gang would not see him in his first pair of long pants. Before long he struck up a friendship with his boss's son, Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House...
Died. Emma Eurana Dinkey (Mrs. Charles M.) Schwab, 79, wife of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s longtime board chair man; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the first steel works chemist in the U. S., Mrs. Schwab helped her husband in experiments in a private laboratory during the first years of their married life. Later she devoted her time to extensive, unostentatious philanthropy...
Mention the idea that a hard-pressed college boy, earning his board or part of it by waiting on table or washing dishes should be obliged to pay an Old Age Insurance Tax, in order to provide him with a theoretical Old Age Pension when he reaches the age of 65, and you are greeted with a wan, incredulous smile suggesting that you have made a creditable effort to perpetrate a rather poor joke. Yet this is exactly what a solemnly paternalistic government at Washington, probably unintentionally it is true, has decreed...
Under the broad general provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, each Fraternity must pay two per cent of its pay roll (or the equivalent of pay in board), in order to safeguard the latter years of such of its members as are given jobs to help them to pay for their meals. There is already a section of the law exempting, employees of educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious...