Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports will make every effort to arrive at a conclusion regarding the question of the stands to fill the end of the Stadium when it convenes tonight, according to a statement made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics. This problem, which has been a vexing one for the past few years, must be decided this spring if the Stadium is to hold the accustomed number of people during the 1929 football season, for the permission to build temporary wooden stands, which have supplied seats for the last few years...
...directors are Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. and Walter Sherman Gifford. Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. is named for his great-grandfather, the Junius Spencer Morgan who in 1854 left the Boston dry goods field to become a partner in the London bank of George Peabody & Co. It was this Junius Spencer Morgan (not John Pierpont Morgan I) who originated the famed remark that "Any one who sells a bear on the United States will go broke." The present Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. was graduated from Harvard in 1914, is a Morgan partner, a director of General Motors, grandson of the late...
...Morgan Partner, no banker, is Walter Sherman Gifford, president of American Telephone & Telegraph, now U. S. Steel Director. Mr. Gifford began his commercial career clerking for the Western Electric Co. at $10 weekly. It is said that he had intended to send the letter of application which got him the job to the General Electric Co., confused the two Electrics, thus accidentally landed with the Western. His work attracted the attention of Theodore N. Vail, who made him chief statistician. By 1915 he was Vice President; in 1917, as head of the Council of National Defense, he directed the purchase...
...hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...
Clever at pictorial arrangements of Holly wood extras dressed as musical comedy gypsies, Director Edwin Carewe has not managed to make exciting the routine masochism of his heroine...