Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second shot was fired over Louis Johnson at the War Resources Board which, with the approval of the President, Assistant Secretary Johnson had too hastily created last summer (TIME, August 21). Mr. Johnson had announced that this board after reviewing his 1939 plan for industrial mobilization would continue to serve, would become in wartime an all-powerful War Resources Administration. Last week the President announced that W. R. B. will make one report to him and then promptly disband. Chortled Harry...
...President's appointments to the War Resources Board roused a whole closetful of undefined, murmured fears among the New Dealers now running Washington. Chairman of the Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned...
Isolationist Senators were whetting their knives for his "Morgan Board." By disbanding it, minimizing its report, and chiding its sponsor, Louis Johnson, the President in time's nick snatched a deadly weapon from his foes in the Senate. About all they had left to hit him with then was the reasonable supposition that Big Steel's Stettinius will be back on the pre-war scene in Washington at some more politic time...
Also included is a manuscript narrative of the expedition by one of the Spanish "Religioses," Bernard de Gongora, written on board the Armada, and sent back to Spain while the fleet was in the English Channel. There are signed documents showing the extent of Philip II's efforts and the organization of the English defence by the Lord High Admiral, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham...
Besides showing an active interest in the doings of the University, Lamont served on the Board of Overseers from...