Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church in Chicago, as chairman of the University's Board of Social Science and Religion, as a Y. M. C. A. worker. This, not merely because he was brought up in a churchly home - his father was a minister, his mother a missionary worker -but because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference...
...nearly a year the Fair's Board of Design has been holding inconclusive meetings with representatives of 16 artists' associations who thought something should be done for contemporary U. S. art at the Fair but had no very clear notion what. One reason they were up in the air was that no free ground, no building for an art exhibition had been allotted in the original plans. Artists with an exalted idea of what the World's Fair should be gradually began to get sore about this...
...said, arrangements were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists were far from mollified, Mr. Whalen's plans for correlating art exhibitions on Manhattan Island were described as applesauce, and the artists voted to call on Mayor LaGuardia for help in getting an independent building...
...Board of Governors would be reduced from the present 50 (42 exchange members and eight nonmember partners) to 32, of whom 15 would be members of the exchange, six nonmember partners of New York member houses, six from member firms not based in New York City, three representatives of the public, a president, a chairman...
...president, not necessarily a broker, would be hired by the Board of Governors, would have to divest himself of all other business interests, would have power to appoint, subject to approval by the board, all officers except the chairman and vice-chairman of the board...