Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the chief obligation accompanying President Conant's nationalization of Harvard is the duty of University Hall to inform itself regarding schools and scholars in various sections of the country. This means that accurate knowledge must be secured of regional marking standards, College Board training, and teaching emphasis, in order that school achievement may be translated into Harvard grades. It means that Dr. Gummere must be given enough assistants to determine by interview the personality of every applicant without recourse to welfare agencies or university clubs...
...cleanliness, clever gambling, the ability to 'con' (fool) officials, a reputation for holding liquor, possession of money ... a large body of knowledge about a particular technique of crime, a fund of vulgar jokes or songs, the possession of attitudes against the judiciary, the prison administration, the parole board and God, demonstrable sophistication in female companionship as evidenced by suggestive letters, the dignity and poise that come to some men after long years of prison life, participation in a spectacular crime, riot or escape, a great capacity for eating, the ability to turn handsprings, seduce younger men, and play...
When President J. J. Pelley of the American Association of Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad...
Month ago, when Robert Young asked for the proxies to prepare himself for the Chesapeake meeting, Guaranty refused to give them. Instead it announced that it planned to appoint three "impartial" directors to the Chesapeake board to break the deadlock between Young & Kirby...
...protect the interests of the bondholders of Alleghany Corp., for whom it is trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were in power, says Mr. Potter, is because for the first time there is a deadlock in the Chesapeake board, continuance of which might damage C. & O. Also, says Mr. Potter, more than a million in cash dividends of Chesapeake Corp. has piled in the Guaranty's vaults and it wants to release the money...