Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
Chicago critics have often been polite to the Woman's Symphony but its performing ranks have seethed with jealousy, its feminine management has been beset by cliques. Headed by diamante-bodiced Mrs. Keith, the orchestra board dropped Ebba Sundstrom. Last week Conductor St. Leger, despite his flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle...
Last week's Federal excursion into Medicine was such, however, that orthodox private practitioners were outraged. For the benefit of 2,517 employes of the Federal Home Loan Bank board and affiliated agencies in Washington, that Federal institution financed a Group Health Association. This corporation hired a onetime executive of the Veterans' Administration, Dr. Henry Rolf Brown, and five other doctors, and last week started to give its members virtually every sort of medical, surgical, nursing and hospital care they might need.* Its fee (cash in advance) : $2.20 per month for unmarried persons, $3.30 for married couples...
...prevent speculation, all Brazilian coffee exchanges were last week ordered closed. In Bogota, the Exchange Control Board of Colombia tightened up on foreign exchange and coffee exchanges buzzed. In the U. S., world's greatest coffee drinking nation, the New Orleans Exchange closed its doors and prices broke the full 1? daily limit on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. By week's end December coffee options were down to 7?per lb. U. S. retail coffee prices remained unchanged, however, because it takes about a month for Brazilian coffee to reach the U. S. and not until...
From the momentary rise of last fortnight which followed the loosened margin requirements set up by the Federal Reserve Board, the New York stock market last week slid hissingly back like a long wave receding down a beach. In trading, notable neither for volume nor volatility, prices descended every day, at week's end were back almost to the year's lows set on "black Tuesday," October 19. Dow-Jones industrial averages were down to 125.25, railroads to 31.67, utilities to 21.21. U. S. Steel stood at $53, Allied Chemical at $152, New York Central at $18, Consolidated...