Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief textile trades tell the same story. The silk output is nearly double; that of artificial silk about sixfold. Woolen and cotton industries . . . have maintained or increased their output...
...German Republic has an ally it is Soviet Russia. Therefore President Paul von Hindenburg bestowed the most important diplomatic appointment in his gift, last week, when he sent Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, erstwhile Chief of the Eastern Division of the German Foreign Office to Moscow, as German Ambassador. The new appointee succeeds late famed Ambassador Count Brockdorff-Rantzau. Dr. von Dirksen served during the War as an officer of Uhlans, began his diplomatic career with the Republic in 1918, has never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer...
...Rovigno, small but flourishing Venetian city. His bid for the Dictator's favor was to install a visa system. Hereafter peasants who may wish to move in from the country to Rovigno must apply for a permit 15 days in advance and have it visaed by the Chief of Police. Implacable, the Podesta announced that such visas "will only be granted in case the residence of the applicant in Rovigno is considered necessary or extremely desirable...
...bull market in oils is not caused only by Partner Walker, not only the work of Blair & Co. Other and even more powerful interests have influenced the rise in oils. Chief among these other influences is Arthur W. Cutten who has gone into Sinclair Consolidated as Blair & Co. have gone into Prairie oil. Always a bull, never a bear, Arthur W. Cutten has done more than any other individual to make the overload stock ticker lag far behind the market and Prairie Pipe. He has been in Radio Corp., in Montgomery Ward, in many another of the soaring stocks that...
During the War he was chief of the air service finance division...