Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Edmund O'Hara, independent candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, asked the Board of Tax Appeals to allow him income-tax deductions of $373,112. Reason: He had wagered $4,084,797 at his own race track* in 1935 and 1936, failed to recover all he bet, considered the losses as incurred in the conduct of his business...
...Depression, was $11,000 in the hole, had only 4,000 members. Redefer saw that Progressive Education's future must be in the public schools. Dynamic Willard W. Beatty, then the association's president, and other Progressives were beginning to prevail upon the Rockefeller General Education Board and Carnegie Foundation to finance large-scale, public school studies by P. E. A. commissions, which in five years have received $1,000,000 from the General Education Board alone...
More direct is Progressive Education's 20-year-old international organization, the New Education Fellowship, on whose executive board is Frederick Redefer. Says the Fellowship: "We must regard as an obstacle to our educational aim any organization of society that permits of the oppression or exploitation of some human beings by others, whether within national boundaries or across them...
...years ago the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's board of directors were casting about for a successor to Maestro Arturo Toscanini, just retired. Shortly after they signed up Germany's famed Wilhelm Furtwangler it was announced from Berlin that Conductor Furtwangler had accepted the high, Nazi-dominated post of Generalmusikdirektor at the Berlin State Opera. Thereupon irate Philharmonic-Symphony subscribers demanded, and got, Conductor Furtwangler's immediate resignation from the Philharmonic-Symphony post (TIME, March...
Service de Luxe (Universal). During the regime of benign, gnome-like little "Uncle Carl" Laemmle, corpses were so prevalent in Universal productions that they became practically the company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...