Word: directress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island. Boss Farley was reported to have said that Democrat Dowling could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau Sr., Frank Comerford Walker, executive director of the President's National Emergency Council, Mint Directress Nellie Tayloe Ross, Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering, Joseph F. Guffey, Pittsburgh Democratic boss, and many another bigwig paid him tribute. The President sent a special message by Mr. Walker: "Please convey my best wishes . . . particularly to my good friend, the honored guest, Eddie Dowling." Last week Mr. Gerry...
...week in a stormy Democratic meeting at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Mullen shouted: "I represent the President here." At his command his henchman, Keith Neville, was elected National Committeeman in his stead. ¶Nellie Tayloe Ross. Committeewoman from Wyoming and national vice chairman, resigned to continue her job as Directress of the Mint. ¶Jed Cobb Adams, Committeeman from Texas, resigned to continue in his job on the Board of Tax Appeals-a resignation offered in May 1933 but which Mr. Farley did not see fit to accept for ten months. ¶ Mrs. Catherine Rouse Conner, in charge of information...
...Directress Nellie Tayloe Ross of the Mint went to the Manhattan office, spent three days supervising its busy activities. On her orders newshawks were admitted for the first time in history, allowed to see the ingots, ask questions...
...instructor at Harvard 30 years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also, standing in the background but apart from Dr. Sprague, two other economists, Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale, unofficial financial adviser to the Administration, and the man who 20 years...
...Willmott Lewis, newly knighted Washington correspondent of the London Times, gave a party for the purpose of playing MURDER. Directress of the ?ame: his sister-in-law, Frances Noyes Hart (The Bellamy Trial, Hide in the Dark). Rules of the game: two players are chosen as "detectives," sent from the room while lots are drawn to determine who shall be the "murderer." Then the lights are turned out, the "murderer" picks and "assassinates'' his victim. The lights are turned on and the "detectives" examine the "corpse," question the witnesses. All are bound to tell the truth except...