Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaigner is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. His great campaign (1924-25) as Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town...
...device to take the place of the timeworn chalk and blackboard or checkerboard for use in football skull practice has been developed by Mr. N. W. Fradd, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium and instructor in Physical Education...
...Clarence C. Little '10, former president of the University of Maine and of the University of Michigan, and University track star during his Harvard undergraduate days, has been appointed managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer...
...present he is in charge of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratory for cancer research at Bar Harbor, Me It was in view of his distinguished work in this field that he was appointed to fill the post of managing director...
...Little has been active in the interests of birth control, as director of the American Birth Control League since 1925. In 1921 he was secretary-general and chairman of the executive committee of the Second International Congress of Eugenics in New York. At one time during the World War he was commanding captain of the Aviation Department, Reserve Corps, and later a major in the Adjutant General's department. He is the author of a number of articles on genetics and cancer research...