Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sparrowkilling." Unto Chairman Wickersham and his Commission colleague...
...supply of which he carries around with him at all times, William Wrigley Jr. is at 68 well-equipped to enjoy his amazing prosperity. In the conventional fashion of rich men who believe it is time for them to have some fun, he has become Chairman of the Board of directors of his company and made his son Philip K., president...
Scotland Yard. Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...slightly higher price can bring much greater returns to the growers. It is estimated that an increase of .0025 in the present price (about .0193 in Cuba; .0230 in the U. S.) would be enough to bring an end to all the troubles of the Cuba Cane Co., whose chairman is famed Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone...
...attempt to solve the great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with medicine. His championship of women doctors is based on experience...