Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, Lord Derby had two ambitions. The first did not count; it was to be Prime Minister. When the chance came he turned his back on it. A life of political ambiguity had evidently settled his pristine urge. During the war he became Director General of Recruiting and author of the famed Derby Scheme, which gave the nation's manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain...
Great indeed was the responsibility of the five businessmen made trustees of the Juilliard Musical Foundation; but they turned most of it over to Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, onetime Methodist minister, onetime president of Goucher College and also of Dickenson College, who was made Executive Director...
Last week Dean Hutcheson offered further encouragement: There will be a string orchestra composed of Juilliard students to be trained by Albert Stoessel, director of music at New York University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will...
...Manhattan the American Birth Control League conducts a clinic to instruct poor mothers "for health reasons."* New York State laws permit that. Dr. James F. Cooper is medical director of the clinic. He found that uninstructed, desperate mothers had been enduring abortions. Ten abortions for a woman was a common number. One woman admit ted 40. In England the Malthusian League, conducts a similar clinic for poor women. Other countries have them. Those better off, as in the U. S., themselves must collect information...
...football," the Director of Athletics continued, "where the feeling runs unusually high, where gates are open to the public and where newspapermen and photographers are admitted, a certain amount of information about a team is bound to get out. In this respect, Harvard is at a distinct disadvantage because the Boston papers give rather complete diagrams and pictures of the Harvard team...