Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the sharpest barb yet hurled at the Kellogg Peace Pact came last week from onetime Director Salvador de Madariaga of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations. Wrote he to the London Times: "It is evident that a state which offers to renounce all but defensive wars (and that is what the American proposal means, despite its, in appearance, unqualified condemnation of war) renounces nothing at all so long as it retains the right to define when it is fighting a defensive...
...only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant Woman), and Iskusstvo Trudyaschimsya (Art for the Workers). Lastly Comrade Lunacharsky is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and the Science of Art. His principles are Red; but his brain is fully capable of coping with that of the tall, untidy man who resembles Robert Louis Stevenson...
...Moscow, at the Lenin Institute, King Amanullah listened placidly, while the Director of the Institute informed him in Russian that he, Amanullah, "is an enlightened monarch who will never tolerate the domination of Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
Professor Jean Capart, director of the Royal Museum of the Cinquantaire in Brussels, will give an illustrated lecture on "Egyptian Art," at 4.30 o'clock, next Monday afternoon...
Those who have had anything to do with the gathering of Harvard's news have long felt that the University stood in need of a competent director of publicity. The one "big" news story of the Harvard week, the Corporation's decision on the Stadium, has convinced even less interested parties that the University is badly mismanaging her relations with the press and thereby with her graduates and the public...