Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roscoe Pound, Dean-emeritus of the Law School and Carter Professor of Jurisprudence will be honored by the creation of a new chair in the Law School, it was learned from authoritative sources last night...
...Association has been conducting a drive for the money for some time, it was thought, but it is not definitely known whether a sufficient amount has been raised as yet to endow a chair...
...within the Constitution an amendment would be proposed. Not yet cold were hopes that passing a bill to permit Supreme Court justices to retire on full pay (a bill that has passed the House and is up in the Senate) would achieve the President's object without criticism. Chair-man Hatton W. Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee which sponsored this bill had no enthusiasm for the President's proposal. One committeeman, Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, growled last week as he left the White House that he was opposed "to packing the Court with six new members...
President Williams, whose board chair-man and biggest stockholder is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was apparently expressing no more than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...
...Port Arthur to New Orleans 250 mi. Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration and Co-operation will enable us to make Arkansas and this section of the Southwest the most self-sustaining, the most prosperous part...