Word: chairman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yardstick of political power. A Harvard graduate of good family, the late Boies Penrose (1860-1921) climbed the Republican ladder of Pennsylvania to serve 24 years in the U. S. Senate, where Death found him chairman of the potent Finance Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...downpour engulfed them on the way down Pennsylvania Avenue. Sodden and drippy were bunting and flags. But spectators in the stands, huddling under newspapers and umbrellas, cheered plentifully nevertheless. From an upstairs window along the way, Dr. Arthur James Barton, southern Baptist, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and a band of prohibitors representing 29 other national organizations-the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (see p. 16)-looked down upon their Wet-Dry President with great satisfaction...
...first wage earner to occupy the post of Chairman of the Conservative Council," boasted "Old Gwilym" afterwards. "And I consider this fact an indication of the democratic tendency of the Conservative Party nowadays...
...Shattuck is well-known as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature. He returned last year to membership in the firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins, from which he had resigned in 1920 when he entered the legislature. For four years, Mr. Shattuck was a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He has served, also, as a member of the council of the Harvard Law School Association, and in 1924 and 1925 he was chairman of the committee for the nomination of Overseers...
...first of the four sessions which will meet is known as the Harvard Conference and will be held under the joint sponsorship of the New England Association of Teachers of English and the Harvard Teachers Association. At this meeting the chairman will be Oscar C. Gallagher, Superintendent of Schools, of Brookline and C. S. Thomas '97 of the Graduate School of Education will introduce the subject...