Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this business group would presumably have access to the Mayor's office. These businessmen would receive no salary from the city; their services would be donated by their companies as an act of public...
...business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity at City Hall, and Mr. Patterson is busy with the weekly Liberty and New York Daily News...
...Australian doctors were using it. Dr. Lambert's committee did not give it fair trial. But the committee's decision was undisputed in the minds of more U. S. doctors. It was made up of some of the best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict of the Cornell University Medical School; Thomas McGoldrick, medical director of Saint Peters Hospital, Brooklyn; Israel Strauss, president of the Jewish Mental Health Society; George B. Wallace, assistant physician, Bellevue Hospital and Linsly R. Williams, director of the New York...
...Fonts were mentioned. It was no secret that Irenee, Constance, Mary B., A. Felix & Bertha du Pont had become, within the last year, large stockholders of U. S. Rubber. Equally well known was the fact that du Pont-Legate Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts had full control; it presaged a close alliance between General Motors Corp. (25% du Pont...
Married. Frances Teresa Kelley, daughter of Copperman Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda) of Manhattan; to Thomas Mortimer Keresey, publicity director of the International Mercantile Marine, of Manhattan; in Manhattan...