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Word: douglases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the season reached its limou-zenith: Cafe Society's favorite performer, Beatrice Lillie, headlined a revue, Set to Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First-Night Fever | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Rangy, bespectacled Good Worker Henry, who is too modest to list himself in Who's Who, almost perfectly fulfills SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' definition of the disinterested professional director (see below).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRECTORS: Good Worker | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas made a speech urging U. S. Corporations to hire professional directors (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week this advertisement appeared in the New York Times:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertisement | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Last week, with his usual tartness, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas took a fling at directors in general and McKesson & Robbins directors in particular. Plumping for responsible paid directors who would give real attention to their jobs, he urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Diaries and Directors | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Lloyd Douglas' wife can tell when he is about to start a new novel by two signs: 1) he turns up in a smudged, sagging pair of trousers; 2) he does inspirational reading for his inspirational writing-medical journals and Walt Whitman. One day last year he put on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personality Expansion | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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