Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seconding the nomination of Mrs. Willebrandt in the Christian Herald were: Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Anti-Saloon League president; F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon League superintendent; Raymond Robbins. "personal friend of Herbert Hoover"; Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, W. C. T. U. president; Chairman Fred B. Smith of the Citizens Committee of 1,000; Edwin C. Dinwiddie, secretary of the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment, and many another...
...Manhattan Building met last week the Executive Committee of Tammany Hall to discuss such routine things as a contribution to national Democratic deficit. Finally Secretary Eagan asked the chairman for permission to read a letter. He read: "Because of ill health and on advice of physicians I resign as leader of Tammany Hall. George W. [Washington] Olvany." Silence. Looks. Leader Olvany, present, said nothing.* Followed then days of consternation, for a New York mayoralty contest looms. Nearly every district leader hoped for the succession. Meanwhile to Surrogate James A. Foley everyone, including Alfred E. Smith and James J. Walter looked...
...German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations. In the authoritative Paris Temps...
...treasurer, named last week, is Henry Lee Shattuck. Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Shattuck has no "who" in Who's Who. But not for some time has he needed such identification in Massachusetts. Since 1923 he has been Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He could have become Speaker this year had he chosen, and Governor Fuller once asked him to run for Attorney-General. He did not choose. Detached of mien, not outwardly the politician, he appeared to feel that his post was at the purse-strings of his commonwealth and there...
...from production to distribution, and a distribution expert should be able to function with equal facility whether he is distributing Montgomery Ward merchandise or Johns-Manville roofings. Furthermore, he is always working with other executives who have grown up with the company. Thus President Brown has as his Board Chairman William R. Seigle, who has been with Johns-Manville for 29 years...