And the ghost of Ida Tarbell smiles over Phillips's shoulder as he traces in the New York City Directory of Directors the interlocking directorates that put George H. Walker, Prescott Bush, the Harrimans and the Rockefellers in control of companies doing business with the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Union.
The new post of executive director for police services was created to oversee several directorates, including those for regional and national police services, specialized crimes, and operational police support.
The popular Hungarian politician Béla Bugár, who founded the Most-Híd ("bridge-bridge" in Slovakian and Hungarian) party to span the country's ethnic divide, is deputy prime minister for minorities, with direct control over directorates dealing with ethnic minorities at the ministries of education and culture.
But anyone who knows the sector knows that with an increase in the number of technical staff and the strengthening of the directorates it is perfectly possible to speed things up.
On September 3rd Algerian dailies reported a significant rearrangement of the security bureaucracy: three key directorates were removed from the supervision of the intelligence services and placed in control of the army.
The commission finances many of them partly because they are convenient interlocutors for the various policymaking directorates.
Suppose the environment or social-affairs directorates are thinking of issuing new directives and want to be seen to take account of the views of European citizens.
The two deputy chiefs of staff dismissed in early July were the heads of two of the General Staff's main directorates and they were among Mr Serdyukov's most outspoken detractors.
The CIA comprises four major directorates responsible for intelligence, operations, administration, and science and technology.
The executive consists of a governor assisted by four vice governors, an executive staff, and a regional secretary; there are also a number of city directorates, bureaus, and agencies attached to the executive.
