Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm...
...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...
...been there before read the inscription above the door: "The Way of Peace." Inside the vaulted, half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee...
...radically different use next June, when it will provide the setting for a gigantic historical pageant, the chief feature of the Cambridge Tercentennial program in 1930. Although no official release has yet been issued by the University authorities, it was learned last night from Robert Walcott '95, chairman of the city committee in charge of the celebration, that in addition to supplying the use of the Stadium, the University is cooperating by allowing its historic buildings to be opened to the public...
Other members at present are the following: E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of History, and chairman of the board of tutors in the department of History and Literature: F. J. Ryan '24, publicity director of the Harvard Athletic Association; V. O. Jones '28, former president of the CRIMSON and at present sports writer for the Boston Globe; R. K. Lamb '28, executive secretary of the University News Office; R. A. Stout 1L, former president of the CRIMSON; and Bernard Barnes '30, present president of the CRIMSON...