Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press . . . appears to have lost very much of its power as a director of public thought. ... It ought to undertake to recapture the dominant position it formerly held as a distributor of current information and a director of public opinion...
...Tuberculosis Association wondered whether Dr. Fishberg's article was worthy of a public reply. Professor Eugene Lindsay Opie, director of the Henry Phipps Institute at Philadelphia, which is devoted almost entirely to tuberculosis research, is a greater authority on the immunology of tuberculosis than is Dr. Fishberg. After following diseased individuals and couples for years, he opposes Dr. Fishberg and believes that tubercular reinfection is possible...
Peter Molyneaux, 46, able newspaperman and romantic historian, who came to Texas to cure bad lungs and who was director of publicity of the campaign that made Dan Moody governor, is editor...
...Wright went to France. There, after more successful flights, he sold the French patents for $100,000. In the U. S., money then became available. The brothers built their Wright Aeronautical Laboratories at Dayton, Ohio, where they had started business as bicycle dealers. Wilbur Wright was the laboratories' director until his death in 1912. Orville Wright has been director since. At Dayton, Orville Wright, now 56 and well-to-do, leads a quiet life. He keeps an office in the downtown section...
Married. Edward Coleman Delafield, 50, president of the Bank of America, director of many corporations; to Miss Clelia C. Benjamin, amateur actress, of Manhattan; in Greenwich, Conn...