Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burke was going, he said, back to Pittsburgh to resume his long-neglected law practice. Added he with understandable pride: "I have been virtually officiating as chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Causes for Mr. Burke's departure: 1) A new National Committee chairman (Claudius Hart Huston) who lets no one "officiate" for him; 2) A tendency to "leak" to newspapermen about President Hoover's political troubles; 3) A cloud cast by Mrs. Willebrandt's accusation, and never dispelled by his feeble denial, that Mr. Burke sanctioned her religio-political campaign speeches (TIME, Aug. 19); 4) Failure to deal successfully with Southern Hoovercrats; 5) A capacity for arousing antagonisms against the President among heterodox Senators...
Representative Fred Britten, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, jibed: "West Point is afraid to meet Annapolis unless given a favorable handicap ... an example of the stubbornness of the Army mule...
...Reverend William Learoyd Sperry, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Professor of Homiletics and Dean of the Theological School, and Chairman of the Board of Preachers to the University, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
Arthur Lancaster Watkins '31 of Arlington was elected chairman of the committee on speakers, and William Ward Foshay '31, of Port Chester, New York, placed in charge of the information burean and room registry for the coming year...