Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee Valley Authority," that he had consulted with a former private utility executive, onetime Vice President George Hamilton of Insull Middle West Utilities, whose TVA contract stipulated that his services should be limited to design and construction problems, on questions of power policy, had once neglected to send a Board telegram to the President, and had meddled in the preparation of TVA lawsuits...
...five-man Senate investigation, blamed the split on the unbending personality of Arthur Morgan: "I was shocked beyond expression and suffered untold agony of heart when gradually I began to see that he [Chairman Morgan] was moved by an intense jealousy against some of his associates on the Board, and that his jealousy has led him beyond reason and beyond logic. When jealousy, that green-eyed monster, obtains possession of the human heart, it is not long until it has control of the human intellect, the human mind...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...
...some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers began to circulate a petition for a return to the three Rs. The petition struck a responsive chord. It soon had 340 signatures, turned out 400 parents one night to beard the Board of Education and argue about the shortcomings of Roslyn's three elementary schools. One by one they denounced Superintendent Wegner's highfalutin' notions, complained that their children could not read. Up jumped one taxpayer to snort that a class of boys had spent an entire day learning...
With progressive education as much subject to attack as the New Deal, Roslyn's school troubles drew wide attention. Its school board quickly asked the New York State Department of Education to investigate. Last week, after a year's thorough probing, the State delivered its verdict in the case of Progressive v.Traditional Education in Roslyn...