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...first press conference since succeeding to the directorship vacated yesterday by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, Landis said Mrs. Roosevelt is making a "thorough-going" shakeup in her Civilian Participation Division which has been the main target of Congressional ire. He said that whether the First Lady remains with the agency is for her to decide...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/12/1942 | See Source »

...British Empire, headed by smart, dark-haired William Stone, drafted from the Washington executive directorship of the Foreign Policy Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EDB Swings into Action | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...company is Paul Babson, 46, cousin of famed Statistician Roger Ward Babson, who runs the Babson Statistical Organization. With the Standard-Poor's merger, the Babson family moves a long way toward cornering the market on advisory services. Other Paul Babson enterprises: his own United Business Service, a directorship in the Kiplinger Washington Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Statisticians' Merger | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Eight years ago Whitney turned over the directorship to Dr. Coolidge, since then with immense pleasure has puttered around on his own experiments. He is 72. Asked recently whether he would write a book, he said he was too busy, would write one when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 1,000,000 Volts | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...achievements were genuinely great. Hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing, burdened with a great personal tragedy (his wife early became insane), he was not a successful painter, had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more Britons look at pictures and like them than any other man of his time. The term Post-Impressionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Woolf on Fry | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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