Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive board session which erupted last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union...
Married. Nelson Eddy, 37, radio, concert and cinema singer; and Ann Franklin, 40, divorced wife of Cinema Director Sidney Franklin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
John Ford, the director of "The Informer" and specialist in fog effects, has made a rather exciting adventure story out of "Submarine Patrol," celluloid epic of the U-boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood...
...Corporations can and should take steps to place upon their boards working directors who are adequately compensated, and the responsibilities of those directors should be made commensurate with their trust. . . . The paid director, familiar with the affairs of his company, could not live in peaceful and happy ignorance, oblivious to the fact that warehouses and inventories which his company owns are figments of a criminal imagination...
...congratulate you on getting your course in Marriage started and wish you all success. Ernest R. Groves, Director of the Marriage Conference, University of North Carolina...