Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foregoing facts were recited last week by the National Labor Relations Board as sufficient reason for requiring the associations to deal as a coast-wide unit with Mr. Bridges' union which won the support of 75% of West Coast longshoremen. Immediate effect was to strengthen Longshoreman Bridges, C. I. O. & Co. in their warming wrangle with Sailor Harry Lundeberg, A. F. of L. & Co. Furthermore, 900 A. F. of L. longshoremen in Tacoma and nearby Puget ports now must 1) go to court, 2) deal through Bridges, or 3) give up their jobs to Bridges...
Henry Ford attends board meetings four times a year. Dearborn's schools are greatly influenced by his ideas. For not only do he and the Ford Motor Co. pay the major part ($1,075,499) of the city's school taxes, but he has an intense interest in education. Today, Henry Ford has a hand in the schooling, according to his own theories, of some 20,000 U. S. children, about 12,000 of them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village...
...busy, as varied and as cosmopolitan as a fair is Ohio State University, fourth largest university in the U. S. Running it is a strenuous job, and this spring gaunt President George Washington Rightmire told the board of trustees he wanted to retire July i, just before he becomes 70. A onetime undergraduate football and track star, onetime country schoolteacher, onetime president of the Columbus (Ohio) city council, Dr. Rightmire during twelve years as head of Ohio State has greatly expanded the sideshows and the attendance at the university...
Generally regarded as the heir apparent on Ohio State's campus was keen young J. Lewis Morrill, once a newspaperman and now university vice president. Last week the university's board of trustees met to appoint Dr. Rightmire's successor. Then newsmen hurried to the house of 74-year-old Professor-Emeritus William McPherson, former dean of the Graduate School, to startle him with the news that he had been elected the university's acting president...
Since the appointment was obviously temporary, observers began speculating. Then they remembered. On August 9, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey will run for renomination in the Democratic pri-mary against former Lieutenant Governor Charles Sawyer. If Governor Davey is defeated, the board of trustees, four of whose seven members he appointed, at a scheduled meeting on August 17 might pluck him the job as Ohio State's president...