Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kennan, who will leave in June after spending the most of the next six months reviewing U.S. policy in Latin America and Africa. Like Kennan, Jessup yearned for the quiet of academic life. He reckoned he was just about eleven months behind schedule in returning to the Hamilton Fish Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia where, a scholarly friend explained, he had some "grinding" thinking...
Commenting on the Monday meeting, Burke, said yesterday that he had given a week's notice that Roy M. Goodman '51, Council treasurer, would occupy the chair at the meeting. Burke added that Goodman had not made up his mind on the resolution when he took the chairmanship...
Massive in his padded swivel chair in the Washington headquarters of the United Mine Workers. John L. Lewis chomped on a big cigar, dispatched orders, conferred with his captains and awaited reports from the field...
...seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which had looked no farther down than his ankles. Once seated at the execution, Cameraman Migon slipped off his shoe, fished out the camera and made his shot while the eyes of other witnesses were fixed on the dreadful scene at the electric chair...