Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk mills of Paterson, N. J., were on strike in 1924, some of them met in a local hall to rehash their grievances. The police forbade them to hold another such meeting. Roger N. Baldwin, an angular idealist from New York, whose mission in life as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union includes attending and abetting important strikes, was in Paterson at the time. When he heard of the police order, he marshalled some young women, gave them a U. S. flag to carry and with several others started marching to Paterson's City Hall...
...much as flutter upon the German bourse, last week, when kindly Dr. Deutsch was smitten down by heart failure. Since great secrecy always surrounds the details of large German fortunes, no estimate of the estate left by Dr. Deutsch can be made; but his annual salary income as a director of more than 40 corporations was not less than...
...Cheever Cowdin, a better polo player (8 goal handicap) than Fred Harvey, vice president and director of Blair & Co., famed investment bankers...
Sued for Divorce. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and a director of the new Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (see page 22); by Mrs. Emily O'Neil Davies Vanderbilt; at Newport, R. I. She charged neglect to provide...
...Frederic Brady, 49, Chairman of the Brooklyn Edison Co., was in Rome last week. He had been in its vicinity for several weeks and expected to be there about a month longer. But in his offices at 80 Broadway, Manhattan, close to noon one day last week, were other directors of his $153,000,000 company which supplies without competition all the electric light and power that Brooklyn, a district of 2,250,000 people uses. Brooklyn Edison directors were agreed with Chairman Brady and his very important co-director John D. Ryan (of Anaconda Copper fame) that their company...