Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived, accompanied only by his Secret Service shadows, he found himself at a formal banquet with 200 of the nation's top industrialists. Seated around him were Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Motion Picture Czar Eric Johnston, Arthur A. Frank, chairman of the board of Standard Railway Equipment Mfg. Co., and dozens of other high-powered and high-placed big businessmen...
There was, he said, not a bit of sense in the world in either the steel or coal strikes; he castigated steel management for not accepting the report of his fact-finding board and criticized the union for standing on the letter of the board's report. Having put his remarks off the record (they inevitably leaked), he went back to Blair House, apparently not displeased at having had an opportunity to speak his mind...
...strikers agreed to a proposition proposed by the railroads before the strike was called; 63 working-rule grievances would be settled by a special arbitration board and the Railroad Adjustment Board...
...Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state government was Republican during most of Curley's administration, the Fin Com was generally very hostile to him; even during his first administration when the late Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, was governor, the members of the Fin Com bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts...
Donald Spencer '26, elected president that year, has led the organization ever since. According to present methods, candidates request endorsement from the Association, and go before a reviewing board. This panel, composed of members of the Association's board of directors, holds open sessions at which it questions the hopeful and studies their past records in office, education, and experience. It then picks the top men to campaign under its endorsement for positions on School Committee and Council...