Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Management of the western World's Fair long ago determined that there would be no T.T. (Toilet Trouble) at this Exposition. No concessionaires will be in the comfort station business to the discomfort of the visitors...
When its new law for State aid to the indigent aged (over 65), the blind, and to dependent children (effective September 1) was approved last week by the U. S. Social Security Board, Virginia qualified for Federal old-age assistance. Result: every State in the union now provides such assistance. Total aged now Federally aided: 1,721,000. Add for Virginia...
...Basic wage & hour disputes are negotiated first nationally, not locally or individually; if these negotiations fail, both sides prefer going to an impartial umpire, whose decision is usually accepted though neither side binds itself beforehand. Local disputes are carried up, through district committees, to a national joint board of the industry. "The objective is to settle locally as many disputes as possible, and if they cannot be so settled, to make the procedure short enough to satisfy the workers . . . long enough to allay the tension." Unauthorized local strikes are frowned on by union higher-ups and are rare...
...Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat New Dealer Maverick by less than 1,000 votes...
...wake of the Panic of 1857, "that nest of gamblers the Brokers' Board" (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new president. The jittery board finally picked the one man they thought could steer them out of trouble-Henry George Stebbins, a skilled yachtsman who later became commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Under President Stebbins the New York Stock Exchange weathered the Panic, headed for the dazzling days of the Civil War boom...