interlocking directorate
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The effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the chapter on the glands of internal secretion as an interlocking directorate, certain generalities were stated as the laws of the government of the organism's life by them in association with the vegetative apparatus.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
The advantages and disadvantages are before us of having, in the glands of internal secretion, an interlocking directorate, rulers over all the varied and manifold activities of the organism.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
Our knowledge of the glands of internal secretions as an interlocking directorate presiding over all the functions of the organism is still exceedingly meagre.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
The potential combinations and compensations, antagonisms and counteractions, attainable within the endocrine glands as an interlocking directorate, point the cause for the elusive quality of the normal.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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