Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leninakan, once Alexandropol, Dr. Joseph Beach, Director of Near East Relief in the Caucasus, described the catastrophe, now thought to have caused 1,500 deaths and wrought $60,000,000 property damage. Said...
...representative at Peking on the abortive Chinese Customs and Extraterritoriality Conferences (TIME, Aug. 31, Nov. 2, 1925, et seq.) sketched last week the condition of China as he left it a month ago (TIME, Oct. 4). Mr. Strawn, puissant Chicago lawyer, Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co., Director of the Wahl ("Eversharp Pencil") Co., said...
Listening to what his assistants saw was Director Edwin Brant Frost of the Yerkes Observatory. His years of looking through telescopes are over; his sight, after having served him with distinction, fails. But Mars is etched in his memory and he discussed the perennial question of Martian inhabitants. "We are agnostics on Mars up here," he said, but obliged newsgatherers with an idea of the characteristics a Martian being would have to have to live: a hide thick enough to Stand temperature ranging 150 Fahrenheit between noon and midnight; ability to migrate from 60° North Latitude...
Alfred Salmon, rich and potent Chairman of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. ("the Childs restaurants of Britain") and a director of Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd. (Empire famed tobacconists) : "I declared last week: 'Most young men lose great opportunities because they insist on congenial hours of work, enabling them to devote a good deal of time to sport; profitable businesses, such as hotel and restaurant-keeping are surrendered to foreigners by sport-ridden British youths who wish to be free to play games in the evening...
...Britain. Eastman This Kodak Co. and the B. F. Goodrich Co. to form the American Anode Inc. Goodrich's President Bertam G. Work is chairman of the U. S. Company. The president is Julius Klein, vice chairman of the Hungarian General Credit Bank of Budapest (not Julius Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the U. S. Department of Commerce...