Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business reported hopefully the outlook in their own industrial spheres. A committee of 72 was formed under Julius Barnes, board chairman, of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to survey U. S. business, to develop solutions, to make business line-bucks, the economic end-runs, industrial off-tackle plays, suggested by his fellow Julius. Sample problem: Automobile dealers pressed by manufacturers from above with new cars, overstocked from below with used cars...
...colleagues in the House, Speaker Longworth was thoroughly cognizant of the Senate's recent fumblings and gropings with the tariff. Even he had spoken critically of what parliamentary practice required him to refer to as "another body." With his two trusted Lieutenants (Floorleader John Quillan Tilson, Rules Chairman Bertrand H. Snell) he was prepared to shame the Senate with exhibition of legislative despatch...
Most logical successor would be Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, young (55), in popularity the best middleman between Regulars and Insurgents. Last week Senator McNary moved up to Assistant Republican Leader when Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington resigned to succeed Wyoming's late great Warren as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Shrewd. Senator McNary will not openly contest the leadership with Senator Watson...
Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways...
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1? postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes...