Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings: one hour at church; two hours on a motor ride. ¶ Thirty-five public utility executives, led by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, filed into the Cabinet Room, pledged nearly two billion dollars to the President's Momentum-for-Industry program. Total pledges: ten billion dollars. ¶ To the White House went Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, asked President Hoover to practice his own plea by preventing...
...House meeting lasted 65 minutes, with 392 members responding to the long formal roll-call. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee introduced his resolution to reduce by 1% the normal tax rates, the House's prime business. For the first time sound-recording newsreels reported the din and disorder. Representative Sam Hill of Washington hurrying to his House duties slipped on icy pavement, rammed a pipestem through the roof of his mouth, severed an artery...
...Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; to the company's presidency, left vacant by the death of Daniel Frederick Appel (TIME...
...hockey coaches and officials held at the Harvard Club in Boston yesterday definite steps were taken towards having a uniform code of rules and uniform officiating at amateur hockey games this winter. The rules, as they are now in operation, were explained by A. W. Prettyman, of Hamilton College, Chairman of the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Rules Committee, following which the coaches and referees present reached a definite agreement as to the interpretation of the rules...
...Phillips Brooks House Association yesterday announced the appointment of Julius Birge '31 as chairman of the Library Committee to take the place of W. McK. Dunn '30, who was recently elected vice-president of the Association. Nelson Cochrane '32 has been appointed chairman of the Speakers Bureau to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of A. L. Watkins...