Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personalities. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover headed a flood commission appointed by the President. Henry M. Baker, Red Cross Director of Relief, supervised Red Cross work. One-time Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana was appointed by Mr. Hoover as flood relief director in his state, was aided by present Governor Oramel Hinkley Simpson...
...Around Richland and Madison, La., the flood swept through the finest hunting grounds on the continent. Here Theodore Roosevelt and Flood Relief Director John M. Parker used together to hunt quail, deer, bears, wild turkey...
Other U. S. delegates: 1) Norman H. Davis, 48, Manhattanite, onetime (1919-20) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and (1920-21) Under Secretary of State; 2) John William O'Leary, 51, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.; 3) Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, 56, Director of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University; 4) Dr. Julius Klein, 40, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the U. S. Department of Commerce...
...cable his reports, but other consuls found he was gaining prestige thereby, and began to cable, too, reports which they had been accustomed to send in haphazard, and often a season or two late. . . . To close the chapter, Dr. Klein was promoted in 1921 to his present post: Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. There over 300 reports reach him daily; and out to U. S. businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must go to every inquirer within...
...play. The U. S. man and woman, were sent to the electric chair, objects of public horror. But from the circumstances that Miss Anglin's play was written when there were giants in theatreland? by Sophocles of Athens?and that Miss Anglin is a truly great tragedienne and director, her deserving of her medal was if anything heightened. The most glib and cocky of metropolitan critics could not deny that the towering pretensions of classicism had been fulfilled. On the vast stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, amid architecture massively austere, Miss Anglin, nobly ominous in black, was supported...