Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year's conference students produced a novel, short stories, articles, verse, all printable. They were paid for these-a novelty to all. John Farrar, aggressive, sensitive editorial director for Publisher George H. Doran, is again the principal. Currently, John Farrar, editor, and Publisher Doran have relinquished control of the Bookman (monthly) to Burton Rascoe, Seward B. Collins and associates (TIME, April 18). In a farewell editorial, Mr. Farrar has explained that one of his chief aims was to make the Bookman "a friendly magazine" for readers, contributors and the writers whose books were criticized therein. For his friendliness...
...Leon Herbert Martin, public health director at Fort Worth, en couraged doctors by reporting success with a serum treatment for infantile paralysis. The treatment consisted of injecting serum from a patient recently recovered from the disease into the bloodstream of a new case. In five cases treated, paralysis was stopped. But, because paralysis may develop long after a patient seems cured, the certainty of Dr. Martin's serum treatment cannot be yet affirmed...
...Medical Liberty League, also devoted himself to electronic practice; William Howard Hay, chairman of the section on advanced medicine, had a diabetic cure and one for hay-fever; A. C. Geyser is a promoter of the 'tricho system'; George E. Harter is the founder and director of the Defensive Diet League; E. M. Perdue has a cancer cure. And then there is Koch-William F. Koch, M.D., Detroit, Mich.- inventor of the Koch synthetic antitoxin for the cure of cancer. According to his bulletin, some 300 physicians will gather to discuss the use of the Koch remedy...
Last week in London Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of the Royal Dutch-Shell group of oil companies, gave evidence of a world-spread conflict for oil sources and oil markets...
Royal Dutch-Shell. But President Whaley's statement was sufficient for Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell. Since his companies could not monopolize Russian oil production, he has been disparaging Soviet oil. British retailers of such Russian oil have had to undergo price-cutting, trade repressions. The London Daily Mail, notably, has badgered them mercilessly...