Word: chairman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Career: His natural talents elevated him to the point of owning a bank. Meanwhile he took to politics, became private secretary to the late Senator Alexander Stephens Clay. After the death of Senator Clay Banker Harris was elected to the State Senate without opposition, presently became State Democratic Chairman. His opportunity came in 1912. He was one of the original Wilson men of Georgia, ran the state campaign of that year. In the White House, Woodrow Wilson made him Director of the Census Bureau, later put him on the Federal Trade Commission, of which he became chairman. In 1918 Senator...
...because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota...
They asked him why the Federal Farm Board had been so slow in extending to farmers the $500,000,000 credit at its disposal. Chairman Legge replied: "It took Congress eight years to pass farm legislation. The Board should be given a little more than two months to accomplish what is expected...
...wheat prices been stabilized? Chairman Legge explained that the Farmers' National Grain Marketing Corp. had been formulated within nine days of the Board's birth; that expensive storage facilities were lacking to stabilize wheat this year...
While the Senators continued pondering Chairman Legge and similarly "hazing" his colleagues, the Farm Board took a few more steps...