Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court upheld a Heil motion that, in delegating such loose fiscal powers to the Emergency Board, the legislature had acted unconstitutionally...
...respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...
...service of his predecessor, Republican Walter Jodok Kohler, which Phil La Follette enjoyed was the State Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
...Prime Minister's foreign policy "and in particular the policy of renewing friendship with Italy." While only 1,000 strong, the Association's reaction is significant, since it supplies the Conservative Party with many of its college-trained candidates. Its president is Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade...
...joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...