Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millionaires' Day was held in Washington last week, this time by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee in its bituminous coal investigation.* The millionaires were three: Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
...Director of Agro-Joint is gray-haired and twinkling-eyed Dr. Joseph A, Rosen, a Russian-born agricultural expert who migrated to the U. S. but went. back to Russia after the War to assist the famine relief conducted by omnipresent Herbert Hoover...
...anyone may regard at leisure the groomed, handsome visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection of armor, which lines his great halls on Long...
Professor R. A. Millikan, Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics of the California Institute of Technology, will give a series of six free public lectures on twentieth century discoveries in physics at the Lowell Institute early in April...
...Kenneth MacGowan '11, Robert Edmund Jones '11, and Eugene O'Neill '15, in a number of plays including O'Neill's "The Great God Brown." Before going on the stage Professor Packard was an assistant in public speaking under I. L. Winter of Harvard. Last year he was director of dramatics at Dartmouth College, and during the summer of 1927 he was in Europe as one of the three American representatives at the conference of dramatic critics of Salzburg, Austria, observing the productions of Max Reinhardt in his famous "Festspielhaus...