Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis toured abroad, visiting and nurturing foreign chapters of the Loyal Order of Moose, of which he has been director-general for 22 years. He eyed peoples, thought about Immigration, thought about the U. S. labor market, in which, according to him, there are now only some 2,500,000 unemployed (Democrats say 4,000,000). On important subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan...
...what decorations they possessed; Brigadier General Gough's ribbons of rank awed his companions; he was the fêted hero of the musicians, who had hitherto known nothing of his history. Reserved, unwilling to rely on his military connections to further his welfare, he later became saxophonist-director of a dance orchestra at the Club Polle, Manhattan. At this period the floorwalker, syncopater, broadcaster was earning $7,500 a year, but a malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada. Quebec offered him nothing but the position...
Died. James Bowron, 84, chairman, acting president & director of the Gulf States Steel Corp., potent steel entrepreneur in Alabama; of heart disease; in Birmingham...
...Younger Mitchells, the most famed is gay and debonair John J. Mitchell Jr. His marriage to Lolita Armour, meatpacker's heiress, thrilled society in the U. S. & Europe. This Armour connection assumed possible importance when Chicagoans recalled that the name of Philip D. Armour heads the list of directors of the Continental National Bank & Trust Co., whose stock, like that of Illinois Trust, has been skyrocketing. Close are the ties which bind the Armour interests and Continental. President Arthur Reynolds of Continental is also a director and member of the finance committee of Armour...
Married. William C. De Mille,' 50, cinema-director (What Every Woman Knows, Nice People) ; and Clara Beranger, 42, scenario writer (Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde); in a Pullman drawing room, at Albuquerque...