Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletin board in Fine Hall this elderly man was listed as "A. Einstein," occupant of Room No. 215. A small brick building with heavy-paneled doors and antique lamps glowing dimly in the linoleum-floored corridors, Fine Hall-houses the mathematical contingent of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. The Institute, which soon will have buildings of its own, is a group of distinguished scholars who are subsidized so that they may pursue their own researches without the distraction of giving courses, preparing examinations, grading papers. Many of the Institute's members are Jewish exiles from Germany. Directed...
...into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...
...February, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. head of a committee to study the problem and prepare a program for its solution. The committee: James Roosevelt, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones, and Vice Chairman Ronald Ransom of the Federal Reserve Board...
Last week power output was off 8%, automobile production dropped to 56,000 units against 101,000 year ago, steel production was at 33% of capacity, Manhattan department store sales were down 16%. car-loadings were a horrifying 75% of normal and the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production fell to 79 against 117 last August. The South, with 8¾? cotton (in 1931 it went to 6?, was not as badly off as Mr. Roosevelt told his Georgia audience it was. In the Far West business was far better than in the industrial East, but business...
...Giannini officially retreated behind the Great Divide when Transamerica sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City in 1931. By that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking is even more of a minority stake because...