Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman Wickersham was asked: "Would it be possible ... for you to report . . . that national Prohibition is unenforceable?" He replied: "Yes, it is intellectually possible-[a smile]-but certainly improbable...
Fifty women, representing 17 states, met in Chicago, formed the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Mrs. Sabin, leading spirit, was chosen chairman. The purpose: to enlist five million women to fight Prohibition, to favor Temperance...
Thus did the Tariff Bill come last week to the Senate. The House had passed it the day before. Clerks stamped the precious copy, entered its presence and pedigree in great journals, shuttled it away to the Senate Finance Committee where Chairman Reed Smoot and other Republican members prepared to lay rough and critical hands upon...
...distant U. S., signalized the finality and success of the efforts of his fellow delegate, Owen D. Young. The press of all nations concerned joined in thoroughgoing applause for the onetime New York plowboy who, real author of the so-called Dawes Plan of 1924 and patient chairman of the so-called Second Dawes Committee, had at last had his name written into the history of world finance as author of the now-agreed-to Young Plan...
Fred B. Smith of White Plains. N. Y.. layman, chairman of the National Citizens' Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, leader in lay religious organizations both national and international, was unanimously elected Moderator by the Congregationalists. Some time ago Moderator Smith retired from gainful occupation with Johns-Manville Corp., famed asbestos makers, to combat Hell's fire through church work...