Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire holdings of common stock, 27,306 shares, in Alleghany Corp., which controls his burgeoning railroad empire. But Bob Young said that the sale in no way affected control of Alleghany. The shares were transferred to his associate, Allan P. Kirby, so that Young would be eligible for the directorship representing preferred stock holdings. Added Young: "I probably will increase my holdings of preferred...
Thomas J. Wilson will assume directorship of the University Press beginning July 1, the University announced last night. He succeeds Roger Scaife '97, present director and chairman of the Press' Board of Syndics...
...mothers-in-law, none might be more difficult than the U.S.'s own Emilio Gabriel Collado. A Harvard Ph.D. with a bright record as a troubleshooting economist for the Treasury and State Departments, hefty little "Pete" Collado, 36, was generally regarded as a good choice for the directorship when he was appointed last spring...
When Harry Truman nominated his friend and adviser, George Allen, to a directorship of the giant Reconstruction Finance Corp. last January, a suspicious Senate Committee prepared to give roly-poly George the piercing eye. But Washington-wise Jester Allen gagged away their suspicions that he was too light for the job. Later, when he was confirmed, he dropped 13 of his 22 business directorships, to lay the Senators' worst fears. When he set to work, it was with the understanding between him and Harry Truman that he would stay on the job twelve months...
Since Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and world-renowned expert on external galazies--those outside the Milky Way, assumed the duties of director of the Observatory in 1921, the organization has expanded many times over necessitating recently joint directorship. Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy now serves as the Observatory's associate director under Professor Shapely and Donald II. Mcnzel, professor of astrophysics, has been appointed director for solar research...