Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James R. Smith, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, director of the bankrupt Bankers' Trust Co. and Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta; at Atlanta. Bewildered by the bankruptcies, he pressed the trigger of a loaded shotgun with his toe, drove all the gun with his toe, drove the pellets into his abdomen...
Thus that eminent propagandist, Mr. Galsworthy, must have planned his play. Does life plagiarize literature? Only last week, in a noisy director's room in London, the scene was enacted exactly as Mr. Galsworthy planned it. Sir Thomas Lipton was the oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know...
...Julius Klein, his director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, had much to do with this anger of the Secretary. Dr. Klein really is Ariel to Prospero Hoover. With his soft, eager voice he had been telling his chief that the German and French miners of potash were about to mulct the U. S. farmer who needs their soluble potashes for fertilizers...
Died. Dr. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt, 55, former German Ambassador to the U. S. (who failed to lower his embassy flag at the death of Presi dent Wilson), director-general of the Krupp Works; at Essen...
...Farm relief legislation is dead. So are chances for Republican control of the next Congress," said Democratic Publicity Director G. Hunter Osborne. The first is true enough, and as for the second...