Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reservation on the Manhattan Limited. With two hours to kill, he went to a cinema. Detectives picked him up as he came out, took from him a .38 calibre revolver, courteously escorted him to police headquarters. Bail was set at $35,000. At midnight he was questioned by Director of Public Safety Lemuel B.Schofield and made these statements...
...Director Schofield asked Capone if he had met such notorious Philadelphians as Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff. Replied Capone: ";No, but I know them intimately...
These disorders drew protests against the use of troops in Happy Valley. Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York State resigned as a director of the Bemberg and Glantzoff companies after futile attempts to induce their managements to settle the strike, to forego the use of armed forces...
Jersey City, N. J., once a little aristocrat among U. S. cities, now a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood, low politics and eager business men whose affairs are deeply complicated by those politics, is governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three...
...Horton, Indiana's Leslie, New Hampshire's Tobey, Pennsylvania's Fisher, Wisconsin's Kohler. Vice President Curtis who saw the Preakness with Mrs. Gann stayed away, but Charles Curtis Jr. went. From Chicago, came Joseph Medill Patterson and from Manhattan John J. Raskob. Matt Winn, director of Churchill Downs, was as excited as anybody although he has managed the Kentucky Derby for 25 years...