Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gardner Jackson, onetime chairman of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense, made investigations and reported...
Direction, Procedure, Powers. On these three points the Statute released last week merely confirmed earlier official announcements (TIME, Oct. 28). The Chairman of the Bank will be elected by a Board composed of representatives of the central banks and of Messrs. X and Y. Mere ownership of shares carries no voting rights. These rest permanently with the members of the Board "in proportion to the number of shares subscribed in each country" according to Article...
...Chairman? Chairman? As the delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives...
Newsgatherers noting the growing popularity of knitting as a pastime for men in British society admired the handiwork of other noble needlemen-a handsome jumper by the Right Honorable the Earl of Harewood (formerly Viscount Lascelles, spouse of Princess Mary); scarves and mufflers by Baron Gainford, vice-chairman of the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and Baron Holmpatrick, famed Cavalryman...
...bank for princes of the Church and great officers of the realm was the Banco Bombelli a few days ago. Its chairman, bland, steady-eyed, imposing Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...