Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...
...year-old girl in a dark sailor blouse, a white canvas hat and black shoes and stockings. To the mainmast peak she, Joanna Chapman, ran up a small triangular flag picked out with the letter Y. Her father, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers on her first trip under private ownership...
...impose as a condition-fiercely opposed by Dr. Schacht-that Germany would waive the "transfer claim" of the Dawes Plan, under which she now enjoys protection of the stabilized value of the mark at 23 cents. Despite the attitude of Dr. Schacht, most U. S. correspondents thought that Chairman Owen D. Young of the Second Dawes Committee would not fail to guide his peers toward a solution. When the committee convened, France was asking twice as much for the repair of her devastated regions as she asked last week, and Mr. Young is credited with having persuaded the Allies...
Manhattan Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was Exposition Chairman. He is 55, small, white-haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
Said the first, whose white beard is short, trimmed: "I have given to this institution as chairman of the building committee three years of my entire time and energy. I have had no time whatsoever for my own business, which has been entirely neglected, besides having divorced myself from all other institutions with which I have been connected for 42 years. ... I therefore propose that this venerable rabbi shall be elected president of this great institution...