Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anyone who gets $3,700 per year can easily remember the figure $3,700,000,000.00 because that is just one million times his salary. To remember that figure became last week a patriotic duty, because that is the figure which Brig. Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord, funny-story-telling Director of the Budget, put down as the cost of U. S. (federal) government for the fiscal year July 1, 1929-June 30, 1930. All the columns and columns of additions and subtractions which totalled 3,700 million were placed by General Lord before President Coolidge at Brule...
Last week. Charles Hayden, affable, playful, cultured and immensely able head of an immensely potent firm of private bankers, Hayden, Stone & Co.; Charles Hayden, keen bridge player and a director of probably more famed companies than any other financier, took an immensely important command in the Republican political army. He agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck...
...Hayden is far from being the first millionaire or hundred-million-dollar-corporation-director to take off his $175 coat for Republicanism. His theoretical boss is a young millionaire-philanthropist called "Jerry" Millbank (Eastern Treasurer). And the latter's boss is the white haired president of Cleveland's biggest bank, known to that city as "Joe" Nutt (National Treasurer). And etc. etc. etc. For Republicans, this has always been so. Years ago, that great Pittsburgh steelman, B. F. Jones, became chairman of the Republican National Committee, and it never entered his head to resign anything. So, today...
...duty of Ulysses Simpson Grant III (grandson) to walk observantly through the greenery of forest and pasture out of which the great parks of Washington, D. C., are carved. Last week he, director of public parks, started a vigorous campaign against "spooning, necking and petting, noticeably prevalent in darkened automobiles at night in the parks." He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children...
Motor Gasoline. Dr. Gustave Egloff, research director of Universal Oil Products Co. of Chicago, declared that motorists could save 3,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline and this year $400,000,000 if motor vehicle makers made their motors for higher compression...