Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy man but that is not the phase of his life which seems most remarkable to me. In the years of his success he has not forgotten the school which gave him his start, or the superintendent who led him into the paths of righteousness (sometimes with a veritable board of education, two inches wide), or the teachers who taught him tactile reading and writing in line letters and New York point. Without letting the world know, he has been for many years the chief advisor for the Nebraska School for the Blind, its chief benefactor. He has helped...
Year ago a disgusted Congress abolished the old Shipping Board and created a new U. S. Maritime Commission to wipe the slate clean and start afresh within one year. In the autumn, President Roosevelt appointed a temporary commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but not immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William...
Shortly he emerged from an Indianapolis hotel room to announce that he had settled the C.I.O.-Inland dispute, at least temporarily, by getting each side to pledge certain things to him though not to each other. The truce was to last until the National Labor Relations Board should give an official ruling. Inland's final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere...
...wagon idea is his, as well as the broad educational aims of the camps. He started life as a farm boy, went to Kansas State Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half begun when the summer is over. He follows the careers of the youngsters who have come to him for summer...
...Angeles, Pastor Carl Allen of Woodcrest Community Methodist Episcopal Church got the approval of his governing board to change the Sabbath services for his flock of 115 to Thursday evening. A confirmed reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over...