Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War he has commanded the New York, been Governor of the Virgin Islands, Director of Naval Intelligence at Washington. Two years ago he was appointed again to an active service post as Commander of the Yangtze Patrol Force...
...Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...
...Mooseheart, Ill., is a home for orphaned Moose boys and girls. They are taught trades, educated through high school, afforded college scholarships. Director General Davis suggested that Moose children may be admitted in future at the death of their mother only, provided their fathers pay tuition...
...John Daniel, "Biscuit king of Great Britain" and Cardiff shipbuilder, headed a delegation of Welsh Moose; handed Director General Davis a gavel made of wood from the house where Mr. Davis was born, in Tredegar, Wales...
...Roosevelt, on behalf of hiss fellow trustees on this Foundation (George Foster Peabody of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Henry Pope of Chicago; James T. Whitehead of Detroit; Herbert N. Straus of Manhattan) invited Public Health Director Martin to take ten of the Fort Worth patients to Warm Springs for free treatment until each patient should be improved, "even if it takes three or four years...