Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother Advocate announces that at a meeting last night Stuart Wyeth '38 was elected circulation manager, Laurence S. Levy '39 was elected to the literary board, and Palmer Baker '39 was chosen a Junior Executive as was also Davki Nussebann...
...pneumonia; in Paris, France. From a small beginning, Merchant Filene built his ready-to-wear specialty shop, William Filene's Sons Co., into a potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into effect by organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation...
Same day Endeavour II arrived at Gosport. Partner Sopwith boarded her in brief, for Captain Williams, his friend and skipper for a decade, had died on board of a gastric hemorrhage...
Manager of the Retail Trade Board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce since 1923 has been a ruddy, white-crested lawyer of 47 named Daniel Bloomfield. A relative by marriage of both the Morgenthau and Filene families, Dan Bloomfield began his career as Lincoln Filene's associate in Boston's big Filene department store. In 1928 he conceived an idea which seemed unlikely to set the world afire: a Conference on Distribution to parallel the conference on national and international problems held annually by the Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass. But under two enthusiasts, Dan Bloomfield...
...with a stinging rebuke : "Every time there is a price rise or fall, there is an outcry from those who lose money." Two days later, however, having already tripled margins and taken the unusual step of ordering traders to reveal their market positions without easing the strain, the Chicago Board of Trade suspended trading in September corn, ordered all deals settled at a price of $1.10½ a bu. It was the first time since 1918 that such emergency action had been necessary to halt a corn squeeze...