Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skeptics shrugged when Director E. S. Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farm ebullated at Montreal: "I can say without any hesitation, that Canada is now the best country for farming in the world! All our fisheries plus our mines and forests yielded less, last year, than the $1,167,000,000 produce of Canadian farms...
Engaged. Allen A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of famed Manhattan financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (public utilities, Congo diamonds, railways, coal, tobacco, onetime officer or director in more than 30 corporations), to Janet Newbold of Washington...
Married. Ruth Emery Ledyard, granddaughter of Lewis Gass Ledyard, Manhattan lawyer and bank director; and William de Rham, Manhattan scion; in Manhattan...
...situation, however, is useful to ornithology. From the balcony Harold Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were...