Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman John J. Raskob, of the Finance Committee of General Motors Corpn., is another new A. A. P. A. director. Returning from Europe, he found letters from many a Prohibitionist enquiring why he opposed them. He singled out Patrick H. Callahan, a Kentucky varnish-maker (Louisville), a boss Democrat and, like Mr. Raskob, Roman Catholic, for reply...
...Raskob wrote: "I am not a drinking man (this does not mean that I never take a drink), am a director in corporations employing over 300,000 workmen, and have a family of 12 children ranging in ages from five to 21 years. The thing that is giving me the greatest concern in connection with the rearing of these children and the future of our country is the fact that our citizens seem to be developing a thorough lack of respect for our laws and institutions, and there seems to be a growing feeling that nothing is wrong in life...
...member of the D. & H.'s board of managers. He has been a vice president since 1923. His brother, Robert Fresnel Loree, is vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, in charge of its foreign department. Their uncle, W. C. Loree, is a director of the Kansas City Southern Railway, of which their father is chairman...
Died. Dr. William Alexander Young, Director of Medical Research at Accra, Africa, former assistant to the late Dr. Hideyo Noguchi; of yellow fever. Searching for a yellow fever vaccine, Professor Adrian Stokes of London, Dr. Noguchi and Dr. Young have been successive victims of the disease within the last year...
...Maxwell Motors, which owned the old Chalmers Motors (Hugh Chalmers, founder of Chalmers Motors, is now a Chrysler director) was practically bankrupt. And that was Walter Percy's great opportunity to make the name of Chrysler known wherever wheels...