Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling of life as it is really lived in the South Seas, not omitting the pains of becoming beautifully tattooed, or the little maid who scoops small fishes out of the sea and eats them while she chatters. Robert J. Flaherty, who did Nanook of the North, is the director...
...Wiggin is a financial giant; his counsel is eagerly sought. He is director and officer in about 30 financial, railroad and industrial organizations, member of a score of clubs, trustee of many philanthropic activities. All through he has kept his reputation of being "tremendously loyal. . . . generous to a fault ... of unlimited courage," of being a hard worker and player, "big, jovial, wholesome." Called by his first name more than any other Wall Street potentate, he is occasionally spoken of as "the man of a million friends...
...came to Manhattan and has remained active in banking there more than 40 years. In 1902 he was made President of the old Leather Manufacturers' Bank and, when the Mechanics & Metals absorbed it, became President of the combination in 1904; Chairman of the Board in 1922. He is a director of the German Reichsbank, being on its General Board as a result of the Dawes Plan...
From far and wide the delegates had gathered. The slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell...
...BIOLOGY OF POPULATION GROWTH, Raymond Pearl, Knopf ($3.50). Dr. Pearl, Director of the Institute of Biological Research at Johns Hopkins, long famous in scientific circles for his studies of how living things grow, has here produced a book which is intelligible to the layman yet includes enough scientific and mathematical data to be significant to scientists. He describes briefly experiments which show that a white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow...