Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salary. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had suggested that the salary of the chairman of the proposed Federal Farm Board be left to the President to fix, on the ground that he could thus obtain the services of a "high-powered" man who could be induced to take this job without financial sacrifice. The House bill authorized presidential leeway. So did the Senate bill until last week, when the Senate, a suspicious body, voted 46 to 32 to hold the board chairman's salary down to $12,000. Alarmed Senators claimed the President should not have such power, warned that...
...laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what it wanted. Quick came the claim that the farmer's new profits under the bill would be immediately absorbed by increased costs in building material, paint, clothing, special foods and the like...
...other temporary officers are: R.L. Ruggles '31, Secretary-General; Marion Hunter, or wellesley, Assistant Secretary-General; Nathaniel Samuels '31, Chairman of Agenda Committee; and H.M. Biller, of Tufts, Chairman of Credentials Committee...
...remaining two places in the competition go to "Stuart Whitney Cook '32, of Concord who will be Chairman of the Regatta Committee, and to Hoyt Landon Warner, Jr. '32, of Cleveland, Ohio, who will assist Cook on the Regatta Committee...
...result of a recent editorial in the CRIMSON advocating the establishment of a uniform minor sport award the Harvard Athletic Committee at its last meeting also took action on the question. A committee of three Seniors, composed of A. S. Woodworth '29, chairman, A. E. French '29, and Hulburd Johnson '29 was appointed to look into the matter and report to the committee at its June meeting. An effort will be made to sound out the undergraduate feeling and find the best possible solution...