Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significant of conditions in the minor feudal states of Indian princes was a statement, last week, by Director-Professor Heck of the Berlin Zoo: "To explain the enormous number of wild beasts killed by native Indian princes during a single hunt is most simple. On the night before a great hunt the haunts of the beasts of prey, especially lions, are strewn with meats containing morphine. When, next day, the drugged beasts are hunted they prove easy game...
...Mackay, financier: "I control the Commercial Cables Co., the Postal Telegraph Co. and many another too. Last week, looking for an able man to run them all, I hit upon George V. McLaughlin, Police Commissioner of New York City. I made a job for him as executive vice president, director and member of the executive committee of the Postal Telegraph Co. I offered him a salary reported at $75,000 a year. Some newspaper men ascribed his eventual acceptance to his wife's insistence...
Colgate-Pompeian. Bayard Colgate, director of Colgate & Co. (soaps, perfumes, toilet articles), went to Cleveland last week to talk with President Otto F. Leopold of Pompeian Manufacturing Co. (cosmetics). Result: Colgate & Co. acquired control of the Pompeian concern...
Last week the Philharmonic Society of New York, angling for conductors for its orchestra, made the prize catch of the year. The directors announced that they had engaged Arturo Toscanini, world-famed Director of La Scala in Milan, as a regular conductor; he will lead the Philharmonic symphony in 41 concerts next season. Conductor Toscanini, slim, volatile, once successfully defied Il Duce; he is considered the world's finest leader of orchestras...
...Honolulu in 1925. Countries which were represented then and which will be represented this year will be Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Among others, President Lowell and George G. Wilson, Professor of International Law, will represent Harvard. Other delegates will be Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education, several journalists, economists, educators and ministers, and representatives of the National Students' Federation of America...