Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, whose judgment and ability is highly respected by his associates. I know whereof I speak in this matter because I have been President of Public Service for more than 26 years-ever since its formation-and am a director and member of the Executive...
...Director Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution has worked on sun engines. There is one, the Eaneas, working at low efficiency at Pasadena, Calif. At Meadi, near Cairo, Egypt, the Shumann engine produces 60 h.p. Its reflectors cover an acre. If an efficient and practical sun engine can be built, its sun source of energy is not only free but stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching...
President of White Motor Co. and a director of Coca-Cola was, until his death last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 7), Walter C. White. President of Coca-Cola Co. was his great & good friend, Robert W. Woodruff, also a director of White. Last week Mr. Woodruff was elected president of White, told pleased directors he would manage both companies simultaneously, adding "I'll live in a Pullman car, I guess. I've lived almost entirely in one for the last several years anyway." Although Mr. Woodruff, 40, was 13 years younger than Walter White, the two men were famed...
Seven illustrated lectures in French are to be given at the Fogg Art Museum this fall by Marcel Aubert, professor at the Ecole des Charles, Paris, and director of the French Society of Archaeology. His subject will be "The Great Cathedrals of France", and will include lectures on the cathedrals at Romen, Chartres, Amiens, and elsewhere, including Notre-Dame in Paris...
...Also a Harvard graduate, also a lawyer, also a President's son was the late great Robert Todd Lincoln who died last year. Modest, retiring, he gained fame through his deeds rather than his name. Longtime head of Pullman Co., he was also director of many a Chicago corporation. He was onetime Secretary of War, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain...