Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bound baggage smasher carved his way in the world. To Smasher Victor McLaglen's girl, "promotion" meant a white collar; to Smasher McLaglen it meant a job he liked. Told to pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose to superintend the Lost & Found Department. Saving the Queen of Lisonia's jewels from train robbers, he was told again to pick his job. He became a fireman. Best shot of this smart film- Strong Boy and the lost child...
...ever-changing permutations and combination of Poland's 50 active political parties and organizations. Assuming that M. Bartel manages to get his resignation accepted, after all, likely successors to the Prime Ministry include M. Stanislaw Patek, now Polish Minister at Moscow, Minister of Education Kazimierz Switalski, and Director Goretzki of the Agricultural Bank...
...combat the recent decision (TIME, April 1) of British General Electric Co., Ltd., to restrict a forthcoming stock issue to British citizens exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives of his U. S. shareholders, who own some...
Tall, fair-skinned, Earl D. Babst is the 59-year-old chairman of A. S. R. A., director of Great American Insurance Co., American Alliance Insurance Co., Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co., North Carolina Home Insurance Co., American National Fire Insurance Co., Great American Indemnity Co., Mt. Royal Insurance Co. of Montreal, The Chase National Bank. He has been eagerly active in affairs of Ohio's Kenyon College, and of the University of Michigan, which gave...
...Clarence Marshall Young, director of aeronautics, U. S. Department of Commerce, returned from Europe last week where he has been flying his own plane while inspecting European air services. France's late Minister of Commerce and Aeronautics, Maurice Bokanowski, was killed last year while flying...