Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Manhattan realtor; from the directorate of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...
Harvard's new indoor athletic plant continues to rise apace, yet no one knows whose munificent generosity has made possible the construction of this latest addition to the University's ever-increasing athletic facilities. Not even Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletics who has launched and conducted the campaign for the new plant, knows the whole source of the necessary funds...
...steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters signed by these two "anonyml", however, has lead the Director of Athletics to believe that they are one and the same. Further than that, he has not been able to probe...
...Little, who has held many positions of importance in the scientific world, has been active in the interests of birth control, especially since his appointment as director of the American Birth Control League...
...away from attributing vocal or musical qualities to actors and actresses that are not musically inclined, and having doubles do the work for them. In "The Trespasser", now at the Central Square, Gloria Swanson sings, but instead of making it appear that she is playing her own accompaniment the director was perfectly frank about it and had Miss Swanson sit down at a player piano and let this instrument do the work of the double...