Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black resign. Montana's Burton K. Wheeler demanded that the President name an impartial board to investigate the charges...
Meantime 163,000 junior-college and high-school students were hastily summoned back to classes, but Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Board of Health, refused to set a date for the younger children's return. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association sneered: "Panic ... is frequently reflected in the statements and actions of public officials." If the statements and actions of public officials showed that they did not know the difference between education and a circulation stunt, the press was more realistic: cartoonists, columnists and inquiring reporters had a field day with...
...market effect the President's speech did not alter the obvious political fact that the Administration has no more intention of letting a runaway bear market develop now than it had to see a bull market get out of hand last spring. At that time the Federal Reserve Board was bearing down on credit. Fortnight ago it started to loosen up, persuading the Treasury to release $300,000,000 worth of "sterilized gold" (TIME, Sept. 20). As a stockmarket hypodermic, the gold news was notably weak, for it reminded Wall Street that almost anything can happen, but it again...
...present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This was due to the fact that last year's short crop left the smallest carryover of this century. As a result, corn brokers anticipated trouble fulfilling their contracts for September futures which come...
...Fifteen-minute service in the University Memorial Chapel, conducted by Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers...