Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization. No one in all the 25 years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Allen, publicity director of the Republican National Committee...
...business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League had dragged the country...
Other fellow passengers of Secretary Kellogg were: Stockmarketeer W. C. Durant; President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank; Mr. & Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt; Cinemactress Dolores del Rio; Cinema director Edwin Carewe (attended by nurses for his nervous breakdown) ; and one Miss Agnes Boone, "dancing bathing beauty," soi disant descendant of Pioneer Daniel Boone...
Ivan Bratt will escape being "out of a job" during the liquor investigation by becoming Director of the Paris Office of the great Swedish ball bearing firm called S. K. F. (which controls the French ball bearing industry). Thus Dr. Bratt will receive the large salary which he frankly admits that he now needs, to put his children through college. A realist to the last, he will earn with S. K. F. what he has refused to earn from the Bratt Monopoly. Indeed he drew up the monopoly articles of incorporation with such cunning that nobody can profiteer in selling...
From the Scottish castle of Achnacarry, whither he had gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...