Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week with a dinner and musicale for the Vice President and Cabinet. Pink and white chrysanthemums nodded benignly on the assembled guests: Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, all the members of the Cabinet and their ladies (except Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Work), Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, Mr. Richard Washburn Child, Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, President and Mrs. James R. Angell of Yale, Mr. Frank A. Munsey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin...
...some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when in 1921 he set to work hacking down Federal appropriations. Then the vice-presidency was shoved at him and he took it-and continued his arousing by making an opening speech to the Senate which made three-fourths of the senators...
...Philippines, at Mobile on the Rivers and Harbors Commission, at New Orleans during the severe floods of 1912 and 1913, and on the Panama Canal. He went overseas with the A. E. F. and became Chief of Staff of the 77th Division. In 1921 he was made Director of Public Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia, a post which carried with it the duties of Chief Military Aide to the President. But he made so much of his job in the city that it became necessary to relieve him of his duties as "aide" at formal White House...
...passes that he is not called upon to act as engineer, architect, artist, interior and exterior decorator, landscape gardener, tree doctor, florist, gamekeeper, director of outdoor sports, and censor of beauty, morals and safety. "He is the man who provides 'love nests' for the birds and squirrels in Washington's numerous parks and playgrounds, shelter for the park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry...
Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, Smith Professor of (French and Spanish Languages, who is now on leave of absence as Director of the American University Union in Paris, has been informed by cable that the King of Italy has made him an Officer of the Crown of Italy. Professor Ford is the third Harvard professor to be so honored within recent years...