Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and chairman of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, will deliver a short series of lectures on sociology at the University of Illinois from April 8 to 12, it was learned yesterday...
...host, Albert Davis Lasker, onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, took him to the Jockey Club races. As everyone knows, Indian-blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz...
...experiment, has disliked tax publicity. Last February the Senate was agitating publicity for tax refunds in the first deficiency bill.* Charges had been made that Mr. Mellon's department had secretly doled out large sums in the dark to a favored few. Mr. Mellon wrote to Senator Warren, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, reviewing the "gauntlet" which tax refund claims had to run in the treasury. Said the Secretary...
...distinguished lecturers in Economics, Professor Pitirim Sorokin of the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Gottlieb Habberler of the University of Vienna, are to speak at Harvard within the next few days, it was announced yesterday by H. H. Burbank, Professor of Economics and chairman of the Department of Economics...
...Corp., nominally a $200,000,000 holding and development company underwritten by Lehman Bros, and W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. They will at first offer only $40,000,000 of stock to buy substantial interests in all branches of aviation (plane manufacture, motors, accessories, transport). William Averell Harriman is chairman of the directorate, Robert Lehman chairman of the executive committee...