Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of military administration. The mission's presence has been requested by Persia and is covered by an agreement registered with the U.N. Also on hand is a U.S. police mission, composed of twelve officers and men, who went to Persia in 1942 under Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf, former director...
Since then, Texas and its university have been hearing quite a bit from Communist Addington. As youth director for the state party, he began to appear before committees of the legislature to protest against segregation or to support anti-lynching bills. To Texans, his favorite tactic seemed to be tactlessness. Once, when a member of the legislature asked him what he was studying at the state university, he snarled, "That is none of your concern." The angrier the legislators got, the more Addington seemed to like...
Lawyer Goldstein said that "at least a dozen organizations" were backing him, but he was not ready to name them last week. Apparently he did not speak for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, whose national director, Benjamin R. Epstein, declared: "We believe Mr. Goldstein's threatened resort to litigation . . . is unwise. A decent respect for academic freedom means that the police power of the state is resorted to only in those cases where the material is intended to undermine the democratic fabric and even then, only in extreme cases...
Stocky, easygoing Playwright-Director Sidney Kingsley, 42, is a slow worker. He tears up nine-tenths of what he writes, and writes nothing until he has documented it with a sociologist's researching zeal...
...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...