Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John W. Davis, failing to be elected to a given office, has yet been elected to several other offices without Republican opposition. On Jan. 13 he was elected director of the National Bank of Commerce; on Feb. 17 director and general counsel of the U. S. Rubber Co.; last week trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. to succeed the late General James H. Wilson, last surviving corps commander in the Union Army during the Civil...
...Biology and Chemistry Departments of Washington high schools. He based his action on a rider to the District of Columbia appropriation act for this year which provides : ". . . that no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent, assistant superintendent, director of intermediate instruction or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy Bible or that ours is an inferior form of government...
...Dawes, having filled their engagement at Denver, went to Cheyenne (scene of the recent Teapot Dome oil suit) and took part in many astounding events: Mr. Dawes acted as director pro tern, in the filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra...
Major General Sir Frederick Maurice (with monocle), former Director of Operations on the British Imperial General Staff, observed that European statesmen feared their own armies as the potential instruments of their downfall or as the probable cause of a greater war. Reduction and limitation of armaments was the problem which Europe had to face...
...onetime (1920-24) President of The New York Evening Post, now Professor of Economic History at Harvard; amiable Archibald Cary Coolidge, Editor of Foreign Affairs; Sir Frederick Maurice, equally an author and a soldier; Professor Arnold Toynbee, authority on the Near Eastern question; L. S. Rowe, Director General of the Pan-American Union; Professor Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister of the Irish Free State, and many another...