Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover camp, a Problem arose. Should the Candidate, who still is director of the Belgian Relief Commission, go to Belgium to dedicate the restored Louvain Library on July 4? Sentiment, of course, said Yes. But perhaps politics would dictate No. If Hoover should be nominated in June, what about the German vote in November...
...University of Chicago. His name is put on reception committees, figures in civic drives. He is a bigger frog in Chicago than Nicholas Murray Butler is in Manhattan. So it was indeed news last Sunday when Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago, to become director of the newly-created Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation of Manhattan. Chicago regretted his resignation, for his three-year administration on the Midway had been energetic, progressive...
Alvin William Krech, 70, was for 20 years president, and since 1923 board chairman of the Equitable Trust Co., director of numerous other banking and railroad companies, banking colleague of Otto Hermann Kahn and Paul Drennan Cravath, holder of decorations from the French, Italian and Rumanian Governments for rehabilitation work after the War. Last week he died, of angina pectoris, suddenly at his Manhattan office, just two years to the day after he pried the first brick from the old Mills building on whose Broad Street site the Equitable's new 42-story building now stands...
...first category of bankers, he was also in the first category of art patrons, having been a director of both the Metropolitan Opera Company and of the New York Philharmonic Society, now merged with the Symphony Society of New York (TIME, April 2). Otto H. Kahn and Clarence Hungerford Mackay are likewise directors of both musical organizations...
...Bigelow '21 is also a member of the banking firm of Tucker, Antony and Company, and in addition is a director of the Children's Aid Association of Boston...