Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, Keeley Drs. Robert Estill Maupin, Bert Trippeer and Andrew Jackson McGee look him over, ask him if he still feels the "irresistible craving of nerve cells for alcohol." Usually he says no. How many of the 400,000 Keeley graduates have stayed cured, Director Oughton does not know, for he has no means of checking up. Although most physicians now believe that drunkards are neurotics and cannot be cured by injections, Keeley stoutly boasts that it has cured 17,000 drunken doctors since it first opened its doors...
...Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab put a U. S. Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau...
...chorus of boos from press and Parliament for bungling its job (TIME, Sept. 18), fortnight ago the British Ministry of Information reorganized, found a new Director General to replace Lord Perth, who became Advisor on Foreign Publicity. But newsmen still refer to British press censorship as "Perth Control...
Most of the 2,500,000 children in U. S. Catholic parochial schools get an old-fashioned schooling, and most Catholic educators have no kind word for progressive education. One exception is brainy, brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent...
Named to succeed him was John Lyon Collyer, who at 45 still has years to burn. From Cornell (1917), Mr. Collyer went to work for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., soon switched to the rubber business. By last week, when he was tapped for Goodrich, Mr. Collyer was joint managing director of British Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., had touched most of the rungs of the production ladder...