Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smooth, likable, cautious, Ambassador Castle was graduated from Harvard (1900), served his college as instructor and assistant dean for seven years, edited the Graduates Magazine for two more. During the War he was Director of Communications for the Red Cross. He entered the State Department ten years ago, served as chief of the Western European division until his appointment in 1927 as Assistant Secretary of State...
...next year one Owen Crosby Philipps, a 6-foot-7 man of 40, became chairman of the company, which then operated 190,000 tons of shipping. Today Owen Philipps is Lord Kylsant, "Lord of the Seven Seas," a director of over 40 companies and organizations. With a single-handedness of management that amounts almost to secrecy, he has placed a great K on many orders. Some of these Ks have resulted in such deals as the purchase of the White Star Line (from Morgan interests in 1926), the Elder Demster Line (West Africa), the Union Castle Line (South Africa)*. Other...
Died. James F. Case, 61, engineer, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1908) Director of Philippine Public Works, head of the Paris office of Stone & Webster; in Manhattan; of pneumonia and heart disease...
Bethel Church's director of education. Orville Brummer, resigned with Pastor Helm. Said he: "Since it is finally impossible to teach children much more at any given time than their seniors will practice, I despair of any large scale success in teaching children principles of brotherhood in an exclusive church...
...Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...