Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director of Naval Communications at Washington, Captain Wat Tyler Cluverius of the U.S.S. West Virginia and Captain Albert Ware Marshall of the aircraft-carrier Lexington were the first three additions to the rear-admiral list, of which the authorized number is 54. Three vacancies awaited their immediate promotion. In August, when Rear-Admiral Edward W. Eberle retires for age, his place will be filled by Captain Harry Ervin Yarnell, now commanding the other new aircraft-carrier U.S.S. Saratoga. Then comes Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Chief of Staff of the Pacific battleship division. For Captain Hepburn, the added braid, honor...
Embarrassing enough to be a vice president and director of a bank which fails. More embarrassing to be charged with gross negligence in the bank's management and to be sued for $1,850,000 by 7,000 depositors. Still more embarrassing to be a U. S. Senator when these things happen. And most embarrassing of all, thought observers, for aged U. S. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming ("The Greatest Shepherd Since Abraham"), against whom the $1,850,000 suit was brought last week. Senator Warren, of all Senators, might be considered a sound bank official. For many...
Josef Casimir Hofmann, famed pianist, director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, left for England on the Mauretania to accept unusual jury service. To be judged: a carillon of 6r bells (the lightest, 7 Ibs.; the heaviest, 11 tons), destined for the Florida bird sanctuary of Publicist Edward William...
Creation of a European film cartel to battle the U. S. invasion, long held a possibility, last week became a reality. Herr Klitsch, director-general of the famed UFA, is the organizer of the cartel, which includes the Institute Nazionale Luce of Rome and, possibly, French producers...
...poultrymen failed to convene. If they had met, they would have discussed the statistics compiled by D. H. Otis, director of the agricultural commission of the American Bankers' Association: An increase in the average number of eggs laid by each chicken in one year from 56 to 135-a proven possibility-would nearly cut in half the 409,290,849 chickens now required in the U. S. It would result in a capital saving amounting...