Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporate gains modifications. Second would affect large and small business alike. Third would principally benefit large individual incomes. Representative Vinson, seconded by the Ways & Means Committee's Chairman Robert Lee Doughton made it clear that tax legislation would not be ready for action in the special session. Said Chair-man Doughton: "I think it would take just as long to get a part of the program through as to do all of it. I don't object to consideration at the special session, but I don't think we can get the bill ready in time...
Tilting back in a big leather chair in his comfortable Seattle offices one day last week, Boss Dave Beck of A. F. of L.'s West Coast teamsters, reminded the country that he was still very much at war with Longshoreman Harry Bridges. But the Beck-Bridges war is by no means confined to the waterfront. It is a battle between A. F. of L.'s most aggressive leader and C.I.O.'s West Coast Director, between the most powerful laborman west of the Mississippi and the most militant laborman...
...score, young Billiardist Hoppe sat tranquilly aside watching Sutton run out the block. As Sutton clicked off the final point, Mark Twain solemnly stepped over and shook young Hoppe by the hand. "I want to congratulate you, William," said he, ''on your remarkable tenure of that chair in the corner...
John Holmes would insist that he is an outsider only genealogically, for he has worked for Swift & Co. since he was 15. And the Swifts would insist that Swift & Co. is not being run by an outsider by a long shot. Charles H. Swift stays as chair-man of the board. Gustavus F. Swift and Harold H. Swift, as vice chairmen, intend to let Mr. Holmes take care of the routine matters involved in managing a business which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of meat and provisions annually and is expected to make as much money this year...
...these four conspirators stayed at Dame Bull's tavern all day. At six o'clock they ate supper in their private room. Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed...