Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Light & Coke Co. before Samuel Insull. It is not surprising that Mr. Billings had a slightly different opinion than Mr. Rosenwald. The two men are as unlike as their homes. Julius clings to a ghost of the old South Side; Cornelius stayed in Chicago long enough to be a director of the World's Columbian Exposition, then went away to build palaces on Manhattan, to sail yachts into Constantinople, to breed horses in Virginia...
...Saheb of Dhrangadhra, was educated in England by private tutors under the guardianship of Sir Charles Ollivant, Director of the Bombay, Baroda, & C. I. Railway...
...returned from conferring with Finance Minister Count Volpi of Italy, saying to Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who had just conferred at Antibes, French Riviera, with Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and at Geneva, Switzerland, with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Director of the German Reichsbank? What, moreover, was Agent General of Reparations S. Parker Gilbert saying to Secretary Mellon and Mr. Strong...
...This Is Paris (Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller). Long has Director Ernst Lubitsch been acknowledged master of film comedy. Working with an ordinary plot, he has now excelled himself. Hubby's innocent little lies, wifey's tiny peccadillos grow into impressive embarrassments. The originality displayed in screening this commonplace business assures a pleasant surprise for cynics who have resigned themselves to the belief that the only formula for film fun is custard pie and an abused Ford...
...dangerous practice to get into, criminals being what they are. But it is so interesting. . . ." Dr. C. Everett Field, Director of the Radium Institute of New York was receiving newsgatherers at his laboratory. "Here," he said "look at this blue dish. This was a yellowish glass. We used it in our radium work. Gradually the color changed from yellow to this beautiful blue." He showed them other glass that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first...