Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formally renouncing their plan for a 15% wage-cut, as recommended by President Roosevelt's fact-finding board (TIME, Nov. 7), the U. S. railroads dumped their whole rehabilitation problem into Mr. Roosevelt's lap. He promptly asked the six-man committee representing Management and Labor chosen by him in September, to work up a program of railroad legislation for him to present to Congress when it convenes...
Last week Jimmy Walker turned on the radio audience the personality that once warmed the Board of Estimate. Over Station WMCA (Manhattan), on an hour of airtime donated by the Modern Industrial Bank, he took a microphone, a troupe of guest stars to Manhattan's grim Bellevue Hospital, did the first of 13 broadcasts called Jimmy Walker's Visiting Hour. His itinerary for the series includes other hospitals, an old ladies' home, many another haven for shut-ins. His job involves ad libbing a show which is half benefit, half heartstring jerker. Last week he interviewed patients...
Dayton's schools were closed because the Board of Education was penniless, owed $61,936 and saw no money coming in before 1939. First screwy move to reopen the schools was an injunction issued by a common pleas judge. It was withdrawn when the schools stayed closed and the judge became impressed with the fact that schools cannot be run without money...
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. 9, (UP)--Bishop Harold Wesley Flint of Atlanta, Georgia, attending the meeting of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, suggested tonight that, "It would be a good things if a hurricane or earth-quake could destroy all our churches once in a century...
Work on the filling out of petitions to the Board of Election Commissioners in Cambridge will be in progress throughout the day. Ten registered voters in each ward of the city are required by law to sign the recount petition...