Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief owner of the packing industry's grand hotel is Boston Financier Frederick Henry Prince, who is board chairman of Union Stockyard & Transit Co. (and of meat-packing Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager...
...Commissioner in years gone by, now the maestro of its 1939 World's Fair, last week sat through a curious meeting in the Fair's administration building. Absent was George A. McAneny, the Fair's first promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair on its site in the Flushing, L. I. salt marshes...
Sadly detailing his own experiences with TVA, Mr. Willkie claimed that every time his negotiations with TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal reached a crucial point, "there has been an interesting coincidence in threats of duplication, either from the PWA or the Chattanooga Power Board...
With Senator Berry as chairman of its board of directors, the Times took on a strong anti-New Deal tone. This seemed to mean that Democrat Berry, who was a loud New Dealer until he was discredited for trying to collect $1,600,000 from TVA for some questionable marble claims, was ready to make an entirely fresh start in Tennessee politics...
Four years ago Dr. Grover Carlton Emmons, a mild-mannered Southern Methodist who had held pastorates in the West and Southwest, became secretary of Home Missions, Hospitals and General Work for his church's Board of Missions. Unsure what his general work was supposed to be, Dr. Emmons finally decided to publish a devotional periodical. He planned one. and found a name for it when he heard a Richmond minister mention "the Upper Room"* in a sermon...