Word: director
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other novelist was Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, author (at 39) of Suzanne and the Pacific, one of the funniest and freshest of modern French novels, and director (at 56) of France's brand-new, slow-starting Bureau des Informations...
...youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish bar at 24 and became editor of a legal review at 27. Then his career hit an eleven-year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot Macmillan was a congenital committee chairman: of committees investigating lunacy and mental disorders, street offenses, the coal dispute, the wage dispute in the wool industry, income-tax revision-plodding jobs that won him the confidence of British...
Also well-known is Director Jean Giraudoux, who seemed likely to make France's war news exciting if any Frenchman was going to. But French official war communiques, while a little newsier than the British, were as guarded as Devil's Island. It was as though the French were reluctant to make big claims lest they have to retract them later...
Baron Robert de Rothschild, scion of France's famed Jewish banking family, director of its two biggest railways...
...Saddest educator was white-haired Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, founded in 1919 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to promote world good will by international exchange of university students. Dr. Duggan expected the war to play hob with the education of 8,000 U. S. students abroad, 7,500 foreign students in the U. S. Sadly he announced that his Institute had had to cancel the fellowships of 300 U. S. scholars due to go to Europe this fall. As he prepared to send 100 others to Canada, South America...