Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished. ... It is a serious question in the minds of thoughtful men. . . ." And so it went, speech after speech-Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker Foundation of Boston, urging mental health measures-until the legislative assembly of 800 adopted resolutions for the year. Chief of these was an endorsement of the Curtis-Reed bill, still pending in Congress, providing, not for Federal subsidy of education, but for putting Education...
...will resign and permit a stock dividend (TIME, July 5). Many think a 40% stock dividend will be declared. Others premise that the $100 par common stock will be doubled and put on a 4% or 5% dividend basis (the present rate is 7%). Still others suppose that the directors will issue a special cash dividend of $5 a share this very month. Meanwhile the real business of the U. S. Steel Corp. continues at a rate unusually high for July - around 80% of capacity. The whole steel industry produced more than 24,000,000 tons the past six months...
...democracy. Pedagogy is his prime interest and he seeks to introduce the experimental methods of the laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility as the guiding fact. He is greatly admired by Author Durant (1885-), director of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan. Dr. Durant gives the impression of valuing philosophy, "that dear delight" of Plato, not primarily for the intellectual ecstasies to be experienced in examining noble works of the human mind (though these ecstasies are well known to him), but for the immediate benefits to society...
...same situation developed in U. S. Steel. One director there quickly stopped attending board meetings. He believed in Sunday schools, but not in turning a business into a Sunday school. The judge made his directors stop gambling with $20 gold pieces. Eventually he got full co-operation in his ideals...
...President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President Wilson trusted him). Mr. Miller, the onetime Governor of New York, might also slip into the Judge's place, indeed more conveniently than Mr. Morrow. He, since last October, has been the concern's general counsel, a director, and a member of the finance committee...