Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hays has had much practice in cases involving civil liberties and he is at present the national, director of American Civil Liberties Union, an or ganisation which attempts to protect and further the civil rights and liberties of citizens throughout the country...
...there could be any new way of telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured to death by the Church. Somehow Dreyer found a woman...
...election of a new Metropolitan president was accompanied by the election of a new Metropolitan director- Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Sinclair, of Sinclair Consolidated, Ralph Clinton Holmes, head of Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend the carrying out of whatever oil-restriction agreements were made, and many another. It was a notable company that American Petroleum Institute had assembled in the big director's room that is dominated by Artist Boynton's portrait of A. P. I. Founder, A. C. Bedford. Not for nothing, thought Sir Henri, sprinkling cheese-crumbs, bread crumbs on the grey carpet, had the Isle de France rushed him across the Atlantic and docked him the day before...
Jenkins Television Corp. was announced last winter (TIME, Dec. 17), as a $10,000,000 company with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. as a director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent...