Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year's day, President and Mrs. Coolidge entered the Blue Room of the White House and began to shake hands with the members of the Cabinet, the Director of the Budget, the diplomatic corps headed by its dean, Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, Ambassador from Spain, the Justices of the Supreme Court and subordinate judges, Senators and Representatives, officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, patriotic organizations and plain citizens to the number of 3,130.* Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Sargent were the only members...
Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, convicted (TIME, March 10, 1924, ARMY & NAVY) of conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the letting of contracts for hospitals, last week appeared to draw nearer to prison. He had been sentenced, with John W. Thompson, a contractor, to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, having reviewed the case, last week affirmed the lower court's decision. The convicted men may still appeal to the Supreme Court. It is alleged that they are very...
...musical troupes of the world. Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations. The production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition of a colorful and decorative, essentially two-dimensioned background. And against it the elaborate perfection of the actors...
Millikan Ray. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...
...works now on exhibition at Fogg Museum the most important are the marble portrait statue of Mestrovic's mother and the bronzed plaster nude entitled 'Memories', said Director Forbes. "The two carven wood panels. 'The Unhappy Angel' and 'Boy' are illustrative of the type of work being done by several modernist supporters...