Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plaskett, director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B. C., has just arrived at Harvard to spend two or three weeks. He is a special student of the rotation of the Galaxy, and has in his charge the second largest telescope in the world, the property of the Government of Canada. Dr. Plaskett is the father of Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory...
Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
...hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...
...business life I have been borrowing money. I don't know how to loan it." Davison: "That's why we want you. We want a man who knows how the borrower feels and looks."); why George F. Baker summoned him five years later, to be vice president and director of the First National Bank, succeeding the same Davison; why J. P. Morgan gave him the banking accolade of a Morgan partnership in 1911. All his life, he has been a known quantity; his assets have been realizable...
Last month Leonida Pitamitz, Jugoslav Minister to the U. S., made a delicate call upon Frederic Allen Whiting, secretary of the Cleveland Museum. Politely he informed Director Whiting that the diptych in the museum was stolen-goods, that it belonged to the Zagreb Cathedral. Director Whiting removed the diptych to a safe deposit vault, awaited developments...