Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Sutter, now 35, was once a Pennsylvania school teacher.* She entered the Prohibition Bureau in 1922 when Roy Asa Haynes, a "loan" from the Anti-Saloon League, was its director. Mr. Haynes. zealot, yearned to-"sell" Prohibition to the country by direct advertising, by special school courses. Miss Sutter shared his ardor but it was not until this year that Congress supplied wherewithal for the experiment. She had prepared a mass of Dry material which she was to take to the National Education Association's meeting last week in Atlanta when, a little prematurely, she revealed her purpose...
Most famed U. S. delegate to the convention was the Rev. Dr. John Alfred Morehead, executive director of the American National Lutheran Council, often referred to in Europe as "one of America's most outstanding churchmen...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table...
...Director of the Budget is responsible only to the President. He can command the President's attention at any time, his support always. When the Director of the Budget says "No" to greedy forces in the Government, he speaks with the voice of the President. That President Hoover was prepared to say "No" loud and often through Director Roop was indicated last week when preparations were made to hold budget estimates down to the Coolidge level?about $3,800,000,000 per year...
...This price would be the equivalent of about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around 45?. The one million pound capital of British-American Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director of Midland Bank (world's largest), Sir John Mullins, whose brokerage firm floats loans for the British Government and the Bank of England, John Howeson, Chairman of Anglo-Oriental Mining Corp., Señior Don Carlos Aramayo, Bolivian Minister to England* and head of Compagnie Aramayo de Mines en Bolivia, great Bolivian...