Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public opinion. Senator Reed Smoot, high-tariff chairman for the Senate Finance Committee admitted: "I have found very little demand for changes in the tariff. . . . Many of the heavy duties proposed by the House can be reduced without injury to industry...
Aged 63, farm-born, business-bred (International Harvester for 40 years), Chairman Legge had nothing to say in advance of his new work. "Results, not words," his friends said...
Elected. Herbert Farrington Perkins, first vice president of International Harvester Co.; to be president, succeeding Alexander Legge, new-chosen chairman of the Federal Farm Board...
Other business of the convention: Judge William M. Lewis, Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal announced that $339,617 had been raised for reconstruction work in Palestine. Manhattan's Louis Lipsky was elected president of the organization. A motion to raise the dues from $6 to $8 was voted down...
...combination also acquiring control of F. B. O. Pictures Corp., cinema producer and distributor. In October 1928, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum combination sold control to Radio Corp. and Radio-Keith-Orpheum, a holding company, was formed. KAO lost money in 1928. The RKO management, with David Sarnoff as Board Chairman, showed an operating profit of $181,373 for the first quarter...