Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When China's Wang or France's Bidault was in the chair, the going was relatively smooth. Table-thumping began when one of the other three took the gavel. Byrnes and Molotov did not get along well, and Molotov disliked Bevin...
...small, oak-paneled room of London's Old Bailey, the chief criminal court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
Gone were the old days when Press Secretary Steve Early would fetch a presidential answer to a routine question (including "what did the President eat for breakfast?"). In Steve Early's chair now was serious, sober, 59-year-old Charles Griffith Ross of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who does not like to answer personal questions about his boss...
...swept Durant out of the company, almost sank it. The Du Fonts saved it by buying Durant's stock, got bankers to guarantee the payment of the loans. When Pierre du Pont, after acting as president for two and a half years, stepped aside, Sloan slid into his chair. But the Du Fonts kept their stock, now hold 22.7%, virtually a controlling interest. In 1937, Sloan moved up to board chairman...
Heavy Duty. In Manhattan, it took six men two and a half hours to get 350-lb. Mary Donohue to a hospital after she fell off a chair and broke...