Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bingham extended the invitation to hold the championships at Harvard this season through Professor Frederick H. Leuhring, Director of Athletics at the University of Minnesota, who is chairman of the Committee of the National Intercollegiate Association...
...railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would...
Heroes. Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck, early in the decline offered to cover the margin accounts of all his employes, became the prime hero. Later Standard Oil of New York became hero-ized with its announcement that it would lend $43 a share ($11 above the market at one point) to employes who had borrowed on their holdings. Other helping companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey, Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, U. S. Steel, Newton Steel. Late last week, when Washington's official silence was broken with promise of the tax reduction, then of an industrial conference, Hoover...
...Chicago college was founded in 1856 with a land grant obtained by its first board chairman, famed Stephen Arnold Douglas, when he was U. S. Senator. But in 1886 it failed and died, lacking money. It was an entirely new institution that arose, six years later, out of three things: 1) Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed's desire to establish a Chicago college foundation; 2) The American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave...
Respectfully conscious, too, are Chicagoans that it is a civic honor to be on the university's board of trustees, now 29 strong. Besides such generous, longtime trustees as Julius Rosenwald, Martin Antoine Ryerson and Chairman Swift, who all live within a few blocks of the campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum...