Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international bankers?just as the Bank of England did when the British Government decided to return to the gold standard. . . . Negotiations were conducted [last fortnight] in London by the Director General of the Bank of Italy. . . . with the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who purposely had journeyed to London, and the Governor of the Bank of England, as well as with an important group of Anglo-U. S. bankers...
Kaffee Hag. The Kellogg Co. (cereal foods) has bought the Kaffee Hag Corp. of Cleveland, makers of decaffeinated coffee, and will immediately increase the production and sale of Kaffee Hag. Said J F O'Brein, vice president and director of sales for the Kellogg Co., last week: "We realize that coffee is the great national drink of America. There are thousands of people, however, who like coffee, but who feel that they should not drink it with the caffein in it. These people, together with the non-coffee drinkers, including children, constitute a tremendous market for a caffein-free...
Such is one scene in the drama Rasputin, recently produced in Berlin by dynamic modernist-communist Director Erwin Piscator. At the piece there have been no audience-riots-for Berlin playgoers are supremely tolerant-but at Doorn, in the Netherlands, an old man has grown angry, hired lawyers, made threats. Last week the lawyers of Wilhelm of Dorn were successful. From one of the lower Berlin courts they obtained a permanent injunction restraining Director Piscator from placing on his slowly turning globe any actor, mask or dummy in the likeness of Wilhelm...
...speaking audiences in their own language. Mr. Eastman listened well, tucked it all away in the corner of his mind. That summer Tenor Rosing received a cable, and in the fall, after canceling a year's concert engagements, Tenor Rosing returned to the U. S. to be operatic director of the Eastman School of Music. Vladimir Rosing is a Russian, steeped in the artistic notions that have made the Moscow Art Theatre. For him the ensemble is the thing. There can be no such thing as a "star." For him opera at its best must be the synchronization...
...rouse wide comment of approval or annoyance. Next morning they asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch which had effectively prevented Mr. Beedy's controversial words from going through...