Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus disorganization was crowned with confusion. Having kicked out U. A. W.'s five vice presidents and all but nine of its 24 executive board members, Mr. Martin had just been deserted by five more boardmen and so many local officers that everybody lost count. The deserters, of course, went over to Acting President Roland...
...many people-especially mothers and children-from the big cities as possible. Canvassing the countryside recently have been corps of civilian-defense workers taking notes on how many city dwellers could be housed in Britain's farms and country estates. The Government will pay $2.50 a week for board and room for each child. Some owners of the stately homes of England have lately intimated that they were not anxious to have slum children on their properties. A national advisory association for taxpayers has urged its members: "Think of the dangers-dirt, disease, theft, vandalism, immorality and strife...
...exhibition the results of an interesting challenge. The challenge was made to architects last autumn and its terms were substantially these: let's see you design an intelligent theatre, if possible. The challenger was a hopeful organization entitled the American Na tional Theatre and Academy, whose advisory board includes such theatre folk as Katharine Cornell, Maxwell Anderson, the Lunts, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones. Because these people believe that future health and expansion for the U. S. theatre lies in the hinterland rather than in hectic Manhattan, the site pro posed for their festival theatre was on the campus...
...previous merger proposals, subway bondholders would have exchanged their securities for bonds issued by a Board of Transit Control and not guaranteed by the city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City...
...prosperous Manhattan businessman and president of the New York Board of Education, Harris took suddenly to drink. Two years later, disgraced, he sailed for the Far East, became one of the most popular traders on the China Coast. He got the consular job because few wanted it, and because he was a bachelor-the Japanese wanted no foreign women in Japan...