Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decentralization is a prime tenet of the Hoover theory of administration-dividing the work into parts and making one person responsible for each part. He would rather appoint a director of this and a director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump to a commission. Radio is an example. Last week radiowners throughout the U. S. made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas...
Russian by birth, staunchly American in spirit, and one of the best directors of opera to be found. Vladimir Rosing, director and originator of the Company, maintains, that the United States has an operatic message to give the world, as noble as that of Germany or Russia; but as in the case of other countries, it will never be given until American has opera, rendered in her own language. These classics in English are not written down to an uncultured public but upon an intellectual plane. Last year, during the first professional season of the Company. Mr. Rosing proved...
...Telford Erickson, director of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture and confidant of Ahmet Zogu, king of Albania, will speak this evening at 7.45 o'clock in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House. Doctor Erickson has just returned to the United States from a two months visit in this recently established European kingdom...
...Erickson has been, during his years spent in the Balkans, missionary, social worker, government adviser, government representative, and director of the agricultural school. He was Albania's representative at the Paris Peace Conference, and has taken active interest in the reconstruction and uplift of the nation since the War. He was in the country in September when Ahmet Zogu, then president of the Albanian Republic, was made king, and finds in the change a wise step toward the advancement of the nation...
...school of which Erickson is the director and which was founded with the help of the Phillips Brooks House, has been introducing modern farming methods into a country whose civilization was hundreds of years behind that of Europe. Dr. Erickson himself, has taken an active part in the rebuilding of the Albanian government since...