Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner Act should be amended by the next Congress, without endorsing any of A. F. of L.'s specific proposed amendments. These...
...free public trade schools to teach youngsters to fly an airplane, repair an automobile, refurbish a woman's face. But until last week there was no free public school for training workers to serve the nation with its prime necessity-food. Last week New York City's Board of Education announced that a week hence it would open the first Food Trades Vocational High School...
Stocky, industrious Teacher Jacob Simonson, who will have charge of the school, has been ten years persuading the Board of Education to create it. He will stock his school with 300 picked students. For the first cellophane-wrapped graduates, he says, there will be waiting in New York City alone at least 800 jobs...
...Congress last week prepared to tackle with a new plan, the Wardha Education Scheme (named after Gandhi's headquarters). Its goal: a school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...
...canniness and mistrust of others, he drove many a skinflint bargain. In 1928, at 84, he wangled a Government ocean mail subsidy calculated to pay him about $3,000,000 annually. For some $9,000,000 he had already purchased on time from the U. S. Shipping Board twelve vessels then valued at almost $16,000,000. By 1931 his fleet of President liners had been increased by two bought from the International Mercantile Marine and two built for him mainly with $11,000,000 loaned by the shipping board...