Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peaceful Sunbury Court at Sunbury on the Thames, England, 63 uniformed officers of the Salvation Army High Council squatted in the meeting-room, listening with silent approval-a few with speechless scorn-to the impassioned oratory of the vice president of the Council, Lieutenant Commissioner William Haines. His glumly ascetic countenance became vitalized as he denounced one-man control of the Salvation Army, justifying his part and that of his colleagues in deposing Gen. Bramwell Booth, which they had done but two days before this meeting of the Council (TIME...
...stock, to succeed him, and last week turned over the management to them. In his choice of heirs he showed a marked predilection for executives who had trained under the brothers John F. & Horace E. Dodge. They are: for president, Frederick J. Haynes, onetime president of Dodge Bros.; for vice president in charge of production and engineering, Ralph A. Vail, onetime engineer in charge of Dodge production; for secretary-treasurer, John A. Nichols, onetime vice president in charge of Dodge sales; for general sales manager. R. G. Hodgkins, onetime Studebaker sales manager. Official announcement of the new officers came from...
...effort to devise an automobile engine which could use fuel oil, rather than the more refined product, gasoline. Mitten Management, Inc. (operating buses and taxicabs in Philadelphia) has developed the "gas generator," has tested it on 20 buses, traveling 300,000 miles of hilly country. Last week Mitten Vice President J. A. Queeney said that he was ready to use fuel oil in 600 buses, 3,000 taxicabs; advised all U. S. bus operators to use fuel oil if they want to save $50,000,000 yearly...
...Vice President Queeney described the "generator" thus: "It consists of an aluminum pot in which is set a nest of stationary thin-curved plates radiating from a central core. The pot is heated by the exhaust from the engine. The fuel is drawn from a standard carburetor through the inside of the pot over the surface of the warm plates, where it is converted into a dry gas and there it passes through the intake manifold into the cylinders...
Newspapers. Anglo-Foreign Newspapers Ltd., a $15,000,000 holding company was formed last week in London, to acquire a group of British and continental newspapers. Chairman Harry S. Home will scout for French and German dailies. Vice-chairman Sir Robert Donald, onetime editor of the Daily Chronicle, will investigate possible British acquisitions...