Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negotiators. To the Treasury Department came the Italian Ambassador Giacomo de Martino, Mario Alberti, director of a large Italian bank, the Credito Italiano, and attachés at the Embassy. They were received by the U. S. World War Debt Commission- Andrew W. Mellon, Chairman; Secretary of State Kellogg, Senator Reed Smoot, and Under Secretary of the Treasury Garrard B. Winston, Secretary of the Commission...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who recently succeeded Samuel W. Reyburn as a Director of the Guarantee Trust Company, is tall, muscular, pale-eyed, with a long neck and sloping shoulders which are the despair of tailors but which served him well at Yale (1922) where he pulled a good oar, dabbled in writing, discussed aesthetic topics with his instructors in a modest yet eager fashion. He has good taste in pictures, attends the opera regularly...
Events in a man's life often culminate queerly, as if manipulated for dramatic effect by an unseen director who, with megaphone to lips, soundlessly thunders : "Register! This is the headline scene. Strut! This is the big-act." Such a climax occurred one day last week in the career of an undersized gentleman who was perceived, at dawn, walking up and down the terrace of his villa at Beverly Hills, Calif. A medical man in his employ issued from the house and crossed the grass to the little fellow, making, as he came, expressive gestures. The other's face relaxed...
...spoke four months ago, and left the U. S. with Prof. F. Saxton Pope of the University of California and Cinema Director Arthur H. Young, sport-questing...
...after his graduation, got a job as reporter on Whitelaw Reid's New York Tribune. Since then, there has been, in addition to Thomas W. Lamont, internationally-known banker: Thomas W. Lamont, chief figure in the syndicate that owned The New York Evening Post; Thomas W. Lamont, a director in the Crowell Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's) ; Thomas W. Lamont, part owner of an ephemeral three-cent Evcrywcek...