Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice consul two years in Scotland, later became special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture under Calvin Coolidge. At 28 he was made the department's director of information. He stayed on even after Henry Wallace took over, rose through a succession of posts culminated by the associate directorship of OWI during the first years of World War II. Then, in 1943, he moved out of Washington to become president of Kansas State. There he remained until the call came from Pennsylvania...
...manufacturer of big transport helicopters. But inside the executive suite raged a struggle for control: Piasecki men v. Rockefeller men. In March 1955 Frank Piasecki lost even the board chairmanship to President Berlin. Four months later, almost completely shorn of power and with nothing left but a directorship, he walked out to form his own outfit, the Piasecki Aircraft Corp. The Berlin-operated helicopter company quickly slammed the door. In two successive special stockholders' meetings it changed the name of Piasecki Helicopter to Vertol (vertical take-off and landing) Aircraft Corp. and amended the bylaws to bar Piasecki...
...million in 1955 while other U.S. corporations were setting earnings records. New President Moulder is an old hand at Harvester; he joined the sales division in 1910, became first chief of the company's motortruck division in 1944, moved up to an executive vice-presidency in 1946, a directorship in 1948. He is married and has two children...
Rhinelander resigned form the directorship of General Education here last May, when the Administration decided to rotate the post among tenured faculty members. Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, replaced...
...When the directorship of an important art museum falls vacant, the directors of every U.S. museum perk up. In the game musical chairs that follows, even the lowliest may find a plushier seat. Last summer Perry Rathbone, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, was appointed to fill the directorship of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (vacated by the death of George Edgell...