Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incidentally, if TIME will be strictly accurate about Grayson, he was made Medical Director with the rank of Rear Admiral, not a real Rear Admiral...
Such was the reasoning perceived last week behind President Coolidge's appointment of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, Chicago lawyer, soldier, bank director, to the Cuban post. Like the selection of Morgan-partner Dwight Whitney Morrow for the recent vacancy in Mexico, Mr. Judah's selection, over the heads of State Department "career men," was an effort to discover and apply special aptitude for a special necessity...
...sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee of Brown University...
Secretary of Labor Davis, however, had evidently been given full charge of bituminous ambiguities. Secretary Davis listened all one afternoon to blocky, shock-headed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, whom he told he was "going to get busy with both sides at once." Director Hugh L. Kerwin of the Department of Labor's conciliation board, was another attentive listener to President Lewis. President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. said, during the coaldusted week: "I cannot speak for the other railroads*, but as far as the Baltimore & Ohio is concerned...
Elected. William Hartman Woodin, 54, to the presidency of the American Locomotive Co.; to succeed the late Frederick F. Fitzpatrick. He was the company's president for five months in 1926; has been its chairman since 1926; is also chairman of the American Car & Foundry Co.; is a director of General Motors Corporation and of the Federal Reserve Bank...