Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson was willing enough until Board Chairman Lessing Rosenwald told him that, if he took it, he would never become Sears, Roebuck's president...
...granted a belligerent status because: 1) he possesses more territory than his enemy; 2) he maintains a sovereign government; 3) he has an army and air force organized to guarantee order. Charging that vessels have taken contraband munitions into Leftist Spain with Non-Intervention Committee observers on board, General Franco complained that Rightist Spain is now denied the right of search on the high seas, that she is hampered by a list of contraband imposed by the Committee. He complained also that only those foreign volunteers of nations represented on the Non-intervention Committee would be withdrawn under the plan...
...felt the pinch. At a session of the Legislature, a new bill was offered. It mentioned no U. S. shipping line, carefully exempted "transit passenger ships" (cruise ships), and, as a loophole in case of protests* placed a power of exemption in the hands of the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Last week in Bermuda's Legislature, over protests from St. George merchants, this bill became a law, subject to approval of the British Colonial Office. Same day the law was passed, Furness Bermuda suavely announced abandonment of its expedient ship-hotel policy...
...surplus problem. Growers first tried destroying trees, then pegging prices, once got rid of their crop only through the aid of nationwide promotion by chain stores (TIME, Jan. 31). Last year, at the industry's request, State Director of Agriculture A. A. Brock appointed a Canning Industry Board which was partially successful in pegging prices, but left a carryover of 5,000,000 cases. Last week the industry failed to accept Director Brock's plan for limiting the pack of this year's 250,000-ton crop. This meant that the whole crop would be dumped...
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there...