Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unanimous re-election of Col. Stewart as a director, by the Indiana Standard stockholders. Stockholder John D. Rockefeller Jr. cast no vote, but offered no censure. Col. Stewart's fellow directors immediately re-elected him as their chairman. Explaining his neutrality, Mr. Rockefeller announced that he was still "seeking the facts . . . and will take such steps in the matter as he thinks proper. Since more than 50,000 other stockholders of the Indiana Company are involved, it is obvious that Mr. Rockefeller must not act precipitately...
...Safety Director Edwin D. Barry of Cleveland protested that these figures were seven years old; that Cleveland's police are now intelligent...
...Congregationalist conference in Chicago, Dr. Malcolm Dana, Director of Town & Country department of the Congregational Church Extension Board for the past ten years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people go to church. There are 101,000 town and country churches in America. Two-fifths of them are standing still or losing ground. There are 38,000 rural churches, or 42% of all, which have no pastors...
Died. Andrew Adie, 61, native of Scotland, President of the Earnshaw Knitting Co., director of many New England woolen mills and knitting companies; in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...eighty-second annual production of the Hasty Pudding Club show is gradually picking up momentum with the recently chosen cast in activity under Director Louis Silvers...