Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime qualification for a Director of the Budget is the ability to say "No." The army teaches men to say "No." Army men therefore make good budget men, and the first two Directors of the Budget, were of the army. Last week the third Director of the Budget was chosen and he was of the army too. The tradition now seemed soundly entrenched. Director No. 1 was Brig.-Gen. Charles Gates Dawes. Director No. 2 was Brig.-Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord. Director No. 3 is Col. James C. Roop, who will doubtless get higher rank before long. President Hoover induced...
...Roop went to France with the engineers and became chief of the A. E. F.'s Purchasing Division. That gave him contact with General Dawes. When General Dawes grappled dramatically with the first budget in 1921, Col. Roop, as a chief assistant, grappled with him, without the dramatics. When Director Dawes quit in 1922, Assistant Roop quit. When Mr. Dawes went last spring to Santo Domingo, he recalled Budgetman Roop to his side to assist in preparing a financial system in that little republic. When General Dawes returned to be ambassador to Britain, Col. Roop was left behind...
There is now a meter for measuring the intensity of ultraviolet rays. Its inventor, Dr. Harvey Clayton Rentschler (Ph. D.) director of lamp research for the Westinghouse Lamp Co., exhibited it last week at the annual meeting of the New York Electrical Society, as his inaugural demonstration upon assuming the Society's presidency...
...Waldorf- Astoria hotel. He bet on anything, gambled in stocks, grain and cotton by day, at poker and faro by night. Starting as a farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar. In 1911, at the age of 56, he died in Paris...
Since their last split, after their 1926 football game, Harvard and Princeton have not participated in dual contests in any sport. Last week, however, sportsmen thought they saw first signs of a rapprochement in these two occurrences: Princeton Athletic Director Charles W. Kennedy was invited to officiate at the Harvard-Yale v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He accepted. Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham was invited to officiate at the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He too accepted...