Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific Coast Director Harry Bridges liked the school so well that one of his lieutenants arranged for San Francisco trades union officials to enroll. Two University of California instructors did the teaching (at the joint expense of the State and the U. S. Department of the Interior, under an arrangement available to but seldom used by other industrialists). Says Pabco's Lowe: ". . . We're willing to hand it to the unions. . . [they] not only increased efficiency in our plant, but they are helping to sell our products. That's what we got out of playing ball with...
...whole terrible business was attached to still another. His country's economy sagging* from the serious trade losses that followed his pogroms last autumn, Führer Adolf Hitler last week proposed a truce with the Jews. In a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, Director George Rublee presented Führer Hitler's refugee plan...
...delegates, the greatest difficulty in carrying out the plan seemed the lack of an offer by Germany to supply the departing Jews with foreign currency. Consensus, however, was that Führer Hitler had promised more than even optimistic Director Rublee had hopes of getting when he first went to Berlin last month. Having submitted Führer Hitler's plan, Director Rublee resigned, was replaced by League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sir Herbert Emerson...
...Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation packed up crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook. But it is readily lost if the potato is cooked after peeling. Vitamin...
...stop indiscriminate selling of hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...