Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William M. Pinkerton, director of the University News Office, will chair the meeting and will answer general questions about how to break into journalism...
...sponsored by the Free Enterprise Society, a number of remarks proved him beyond doubt to be an anti-semite. To most people it is something of a truism to say that anti-semitism is evil--so much of a truism, in fact, that when a man stands on a chair and shouts "I hate Jews," it is better to ignore him and to concentrate criticism on shrewder, more careful anti-semites. Hart did not declare that he hated Jews, but he named the Truman administration, the Marshall Plan, and the U. N. to be influenced strongly by a powerful "international...
Earl got himself elected lieutenant governor in 1936. When Governor Richard Leche was forced to resign in the heat of one of Louisiana's many scandals, Earl stepped into the governor's chair. He ran again but was not reelected...
...good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...
...minutes later Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins, who has as hard a time getting steel as the next manufacturer, was in the witness chair. Why, he asked with elaborate irony, didn't Ginsberg go into the steel grey market and "make the same small margin of profit that he makes in building materials?" Chirped unabashed Mr. Ginsberg, who was once New York State's champion lightning calculator: "How much do you need...