Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon as the potential effects of the reversal became apparent, NLRB Counsel Charles Fahy asked the Circuit Courts of Appeals at Covington, Ky., Philadelphia and Chicago to permit withdrawal and correction of board records filed respectively against Ford Motor Co., Republic Steel Corp., Inland Steel Co. The Covington court first granted, this week denied NLRB the desperately needed permission; the Philadelphia court postponed final decision. Circuit judges at Chicago were to hear the Board's Inland petition this week. Certain it was that unless the Supreme Court of the U. S. reverses the Sixth Circuit Court at Covington, Ford...
...disguised as a clergyman at the time, which must have given State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley quite a start. When she was taken to Earl and taxed him with his crimes. Earl said, "Ma, do you feel all right?" But two days later he confessed, too. The State Parole Board let Mrs. Smith out five days early, and she went to Seattle with State Police carrying shovels, to see if she could help them dig up a piece or two of James Bassett's body...
...Latin & Greek were staples of the U. S. high-school curriculum. Either because or in spite of that fact, the curriculum was under sharp attack. One of its severest critics, dynamic Dr. Abraham Flexner, then secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, got the Rockefeller General Education Board to start the Lincoln School, an experimental, "progressive" school. It was attached to Columbia University's Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such...
...Eckener, world's foremost expert on lighter-than-air craft, arrived in the U. S. from Germany last week to try to get some helium for German dirigibles. The U. S. has practically all the helium there is, Germany has practically all the dirigibles. The National Munitions Control Board approved the export last November, but since helium is a natural resource, the Interior Department has final say. Secretary Ickes, not convinced that Germany would use the non-inflammable gas for commercial purposes only, has held up the shipment...
...Washington Secretary Ickes said: "I haven't changed my mind on the subject. I haven't made it up yet." To a Washington dinner in honor of Dr. Eckener, German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff this week invited State Department officials, Munitions Board members, Senators, but not Harold L. Ickes...