Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney-General, Sir Donald Somervell. Early last week the Attorney-General informed Sandys that unless he revealed the source of his information, the Official Secrets Act would be applied, making him liable to a two-year prison sentence. Sandys refused. The Army Council then created a three-man board of inquiry, headed by General Sir Edmund Ironside, governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, which promptly summoned the M. P. to appear for trial...
...knots), she was powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
...room last week when CBS put a weekly series of dinner parties on its summer broadcasting schedule. Invitations are going out for Wednesday evening dinners. Place: CBS' Manhattan studios. Host: Professor Lyman Lloyd Bryson of Columbia University's Teachers College, chairman of Columbia's Adult Education Board...
...excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing examinations. Fortnight ago, in a letter to Senator Vandenburg, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles suggested that bank regulations should be loosened in depressions when credit is needed, tightened in booms (TIME, June...
...ability for raising money; in 1934 he went East to be president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Last week Lewis Brown made him one of Johns-Manville's nine directors. Dr. Jessup's job: to represent the public on Johns-Manville's board...