Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleasantly but insistently last week Chairman Owen D. Young of the second Dawes Committee at Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) circulated a memorandum of his own drafting among the delegates of the Great Powers who have met to decide how much Germany must finally pay in reparations...
...Chairman Young did thus actually obtain the agreement of Dr. Schacht to the minimum figure of $8,800,000,000, he performed a major feat. So sanguine seemed the delegates of results to follow that they determined to meet hereafter on Sundays as well as week days in an effort to fix as soon as possible how much more than minimum the Fatherland must pay. This surplus above the Allied needs for repayment to the U. S. is supposed to partially cover the cost of repairing War damage done by German forces by land, sea, and air. Reputedly, the Young...
...Imperial War Graves Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven British cemeteries. Last week the I. W. G. C., tireless, diligent and unsung, published its ninth annual report, a monument to the labors of its Permanent Vice-chairman, Major General Sir Fabian Ware...
Pallbearers for Ambassador Herrick were six, including besides the three Orateurs Funèbres, Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee (see International); Aristide Briand, the cello-voiced, bushy-eyebrowed Foreign Minister of France; and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
...Even before acquiring Farmers' Loan, the National City had resources of almost $1,900,000,000; added some 220,000,000 with Farmers' Loan. Mr. Mitchell will retire as National City president, to be succeeded by Vice President Gordon S. Rentschler.* But Mr. Mitchell will be board chairman of National City Bank, of National City Co., and City Bank-Farmers' Trust Co., a new trust company formed by transferring Farmers' Trust Co. commercial business to National City and National City's trust business (as far as possible) to Farmers' Trust. President J. H. Perkins...