Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the President sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for the Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before the I. C. C. is railroad consolidation, of which...
Morality will continue and magazines will continue. So not alone will the subway sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian...
Justice Sir Horace E. Avory; John Withers, Member of Parliament for the university; Dr. Montague James, provost of Eton; Sir Walter M. Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Research Council, and Sir William Bragg, director of the Davy-Faraday research laboratory...
...Manhattan last week, the alumni association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons assembled to honor a stalwart member. He was 75-year-old Dr. William Henry Welch, Director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University since 1916. He also has been President of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research since 1901; trustee of the Carnegie Institution since 1906; a Brigadier General in the Officers Reserve Corps (he served in the Army during the War) ; holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and many another; recipient of a string of honorary...
...only once every four years in each country, interest in them will greatly lag. Harvard has in her strong material this year an added reason for wishing to continue the old system. K. S. Pfaffman '24 is coming to Cambridge this week to confer with W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, captain of the tennis team, on the possibilities of arranging the trip, especially of persuading Yale to continue the old policy...