Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special committee on administrative law headed by Washington's Colonel O. R. McGuire. The report recommended that each Federal agency: 1) publish its detailed rules & regulations within 90 days after the law it administers goes into effect, and 2) set up a special three-man dispute board to review contested decisions before they are taken into court...
This gruesome ordeal had its effect. That very day Assemblyman Edgar F. Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...
...Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and weighing four pounds; part of a garage roof; the steel turret top of an automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board. These things were acquired for the Museum, at a price which its officials last week refused to reveal, by Ben Hur Wilson, amateur astronomer of Joliet, Ill. They originally belonged to Edward McCain, resident of the small Illinois mining town of Benld...
Agent Wilson's report in Science: "This meteorite penetrated the roof of a frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...
...Federal Reserve Board reported December industrial production at 104% of the 1923-25 average, up from 77 six months...