Word: directors
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John Roy Steelman, director of the U. S. Department of Labor's conciliation service, was in a most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators in the great Appalachian coal fields and United Mine Workers' John Lewis, who for seven weeks had been unable to agree on a new labor contract. Having heard him out last week, John Lewis ironically announced that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along...
...national director of the Writers' Project was accused by one of his erstwhile supervisors of inspiring a sit-down strike in which some 200 literary WPA-sters seized and held the writers' headquarters in Manhattan...
John Baker Opdycke, husband of the Theatre Guild's famed Director Theresa Helburn (with whom he lives in a house called Terrytop in the Connecticut hills), is no mediocrity himself. Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, Cornell, Columbia and Oxford, he was a newshawk at three Olympic Games (1904, '08, '12), wrote 22 books on prose style, advertising technique, etc. He was also for 35 years a teacher of English, most of the time in New York City high schools, from which he retired at 60 last year. Teaching, journalism and writing developed...
...noted traveller and director of the New England Museum of Natural History, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, will speak on his explorations of Mount St. Agnes and Mount Sanford, Alaska, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Indications that the great stellar systems in space may possess outlying sparsely populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...