Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist doctrine," was the way Professor Langer characterized the new book, which was prepared from a rare first edition. Roynal and Hitchcock, the publishers, arranged for the money from the sale of "Germany's Bible" to be given to John Chamborlain of Harper's Magazine, and Alvin Johnson, director of the New School of Social Research. These men will arrange for the disposal of the money in connection with the Refugee Fund...
...either: 1) the biggest fiasco of his career; or 2) the scientific scoop of the decade. Because topflight geneticists would not work with a tabloid newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments in Germany and England he douched female rats with 2% or 3% bicarbonate of soda solution...
Last week Dr. Julian E. Butterworth, director of Cornell's Graduate School of Education, announced a compromise between these extremes. Next fall Cornell will start a five-year training course for high-school teachers. It will stress cultural education, but students will also spend one-fifth of their time learning to understand teaching and children. Most radical advance: tests to weed out unfit teachers at intervals, before they graduate. Students will be required not only to pass their courses but also to give evidence of mental fitness, emotional stability, poise, ability to use the English language properly...
...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, which fortnight ago was entertained by SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' smart display of the insurance industry's enormous power, last week heard Bill Douglas try to prove that insurance directors use their influence to swing business their own way. Evidence: 1) while a director of New York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director...
...Richard Prager, world famous German cataloguer of variable stars, arrived here yesterday morning aboard the S. S. Samaria to take his position in the research department of the Observatory, where he will work with Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...