Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit housing officials ruled that residents of its low-cost housing projects could not own television sets. The tenants instead should be saving their money towards buying their own homes, explained Housing Director James H. Inglis...
...Dayton, Ohio began a work-relief program, the first since WPA days. Already 50 people were being paid $1 an hour for leaf-raking and weed-cutting in the city's parks, and applications were coming in at the rate of ten a day. City Welfare Director E. V. Stoecklein blamed it all on factory layoffs of unskilled labor...
Fridolin, who scored a hit in Eddie Dowling's St. Lazare's Pharmacy in Chicago in 1945, was in no rush. Weekly receipts at the Theatre du Gesu were $12,000, and nearly half of it was profit (before taxes) for Author-Producer-Director Fridolin. To earn that kind of money, he played only five shows a week, had plenty of time left to spend with his wife and six children. Neither the money nor the hours would be as good on Broadway...
Except for about 30 pieces (including an Epstein bust and a sprinkling of Pre-Raphaelites), the Tate has resolutely packed them off to the cellar. That, says the gallery's pastel-shirted Director John Rothenstein, is where they belong...
Last week U.S. doctors talked back to Dr. Brailsford in sharp tones. His statements, snorted Dr. Russell Morgan, director of Johns Hopkins' department of radiology, were "totally contrary to the best medical thinking in this country at the present time." In the past six months, he said, X rays of the stomachs of 3,000 patients in Johns Hopkins' dispensary clinic turned up cancers in four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often...