Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William G. McAdoo, onetime Secretary of the Treasury (1913-18), Director General of Railways (1917-19), candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination (1924), having attended the Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 25, SPORT), went on to Washington, called on his step-mother-in-law, met his friends and political advisers, went on to Manhattan for similar conferences. "Grooming himself for 1928? Patching party fences? Planning to do away with the Democratic Convention's two thirds vote for nomination?" conjectured correspondents. W. W. Brandon, Governor of Alabama, the stentorian voice who last June called more than 100 times "Twenty foah...
...Howell, wife of the first Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Warsaw; Miss Jean Field Blair, Richmond, Va.; Miss Mary Louise Butterfield, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Miss Elizabeth Irving Chase, Waterbury, Conn.; Miss Suzette Dewey, Chicago; Miss Helen Edwards, Cincinnati; Miss Betty Galey of London, daughter of the Director of the American University Union and Miss Joan Williams, Chicago...
...Director Invents Travelling Stage...
Although Bushnell Cheney, a Yale man, is owner and Director in whose hands the project has taken shape, many Harvard men, members of the Dramatic Club and, most of them, affiliated with the late 47 Workshop, have been intimately connected with the Jitney Players. Last summer there were seven graduates and undergraduates of the University in the company, with three Yale...
...Stieler, representing Director General Dr. Oeser of the German Railway system, called upon the President. He was gloomy about the success of the Experts' Plan, held out little hope of the railways being able to shoulder their immense burdens. President Hindenburg replied that he knew of the grave difficulties confronting the railways and expressed his confidence that they would all be overcome...