Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened, however, that Japan's Minister of Finance, Seihin Ikeda, was formerly managing director of the vast Mitsui Bank (he was rumored marked for assassination in the February 1936 uprising of young army officers) and his daughter married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months...
...futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
...last week British Broadcasting Corp. staged a unique and peculiarly British program, a broadcast strictly for dogs. This was the sort of thing decorous Director-General Sir John Reith might have forbidden in his time, but strait-laced Sir John was replaced last October by heartier Frederick Wolff Ogilvie. "Calling All Dogs" was announced as an experiment to find out just what broadcasting means to dogs. So British radio owners were asked to have their dogs listen in, and to report their dogs' reactions to the broadcast...
When Mr. Preston died in 1924, the painting passed to his nephew Charles, and when Charles died in 1928, to son Marvin III. Recently Marvin III, 26, took it to the Detroit Institute of Arts to arrange for its exhibition. Director Wilhelm Valentiner, dazzled by the reality of Artist Haeberle's currency, particularly a life-size 1886 five-dollar bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make...
According to tentative arrangements drawn up by Coach Clark Hodder of the Varsity squad and Adolph Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, the tourney will begin the weekend before the end of Mid-Years and continue for seven Monday evenings...