Word: boards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Williams is a member of the board of directors of the National Conference on City Planning, a member of the board of governors of the American City Planning Institute, and served on the staff of the New York City Heights of Buildings Commission. He was sent abroad by the city of New York in 1913 to investigate building regulations and zoning. He will examine "The Legal Aspects of Municipal Airports...
...further respects the service makes an advance of benefit to the perplexed graduate. Gratuitous and expert advice, the product of thorough study, will be his. The provision of a board with intimate knowledge of the available positions and actual contacts with the business and professional worlds will bring the matter of advising and placing seniors to an effective reality...
...Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; to the company's presidency, left vacant by the death of Daniel Frederick Appel...
...petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from an operating company to its present holding company status. He was one of the first oilmen to foresee the necessity of restricting the oil output and was a pioneer exponent...
Simplicity and the outdoor life are Foxcroft's keynotes. Horses are its main theme outside of classroom. The school has well-filled stables. Girls who can, may board their own horses. With their parents' consent and Miss Charlotte's approval of their horsemanship, they may ride in the foxhunts for which Middleburg is famed. Miss Charlotte, a hale, erect, full-bodied horsewoman in her late 30's with clear grey eyes, fresh complexion and prematurely grey hair, rides with them. Her piebald jumper's name is "War Paint...