Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Henry M. Allen, National Director of Disaster Relief for the Red Cross: "No man can exaggerate the seriousness of what has and is taking place-[it] staggers imagination...
Last week a not altogether dignified chorus of disappointment and disapproval rose from within the walls of English universities. London University, which enrolls 3,000 students in the world's most imposing school of economics, had needed a man for its .top economics ; chair. The, school's director and governors had 'called from the U.S. able Economist Allyn Abbott Young of Harvard. While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained...
President Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central R.R. last week asked permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission to become a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R., in which his company recently bought a one-sixth interest, and of four W.&L.E. subsidiaries. Under the law, which aims to prevent the nefarious interlocking of railroad directorates, he was required to submit to the I.C.C. the names of railroads in which he already is a director. There were 102 railroads in his list. So when the I.C.C. grants his latest request, Mr. Crowley, nicknamed "Pull 80 Cars...
...general manager of Pathe Exchange Inc., conducted quiet pourparlers with President Elisha Walker of Blair & Co. (investment bankers who control the Pathe Co.); with General Manager John J. Murdock of B. F. Keith Corp. (vaudeville theatres), President Mark E. Heiman of Orpheum Circuit Inc. (vaudeville theatres) and Cinema Director Cecil B. De Mille (whose productions Producers Distributing Corp. have handled...
...last week these groups had agreed upon contracts for a 15-year tie-up of their interests. Pathe will make (in addition to its present newsreels and short length pictures) feature films. Director DeMille will turn over to the group his features already produced and new ones to come. Keith Corp. will supply the 50 theatres it controls, Orpheum Circuit its 47. And, to pay expansion expenses, Pathe will enlarge its capital, under Blair & Co.'s direction, from $4,000,000 to $10,000,000. Keith Manager Murdock will become President of Pathe Exchange...