Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee, which is to take charge of receiving the lists and select a certain number of officials was then appointed. H. W. Clark '23, who called the meeting, was appointed chairman of the committee with C. P. Houston, Athletic Director at Tufts, and H. M. Gore, who holds a similar position at M. A. C., being the other two members...
...portrait of President Harding is hanging in the White House because the joint congressional committee on the library, acting on recommendation of Charles Moore, chairman of the commission of fine arts, declined to accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased...
...humorous mouth succeeded in diplomatically concealing his feelings. He has been attending arms conferences for the last four years. First it was the 1925 "Traffic-in-Arms" conference, then the 1926-27 preparatory arms commission and finally the ill-starred 1927 conference on naval armaments, of which he was chairman. He has heard all the polite haggling of open and closed diplomacy. He has seen admirals and generals mix a sour brew of national honor, strategy and armament statistics. And he sums his observations thus...
Last week as chairman of the Inaugural Committee, Col. Grant wrote letters of appreciation to many distinguished persons, thanking them for their attendance in Washington March 4. Lamentably, one such letter went to Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield (Republican) of Missouri. On March 4, Governor Caulfield was putting in a normal working day at Jefferson City. Said he: "That shows the unimportance of my attendance at the ceremony...
...Jeremiah Smith Jr. By-laws provide for the "exclusion of any Bellhop caught working," and the purpose of the organization seemed to be frequent luncheons at the Hotel George V de luxe seat of the second Dawes Committee. Charter Bellhops include: 1) Stuart Crocker, a General Electric associate of Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee Owen D. Young; 2) Frederick Bate, Secretary of the Committee; 3) M. de Sanchez of the Morgan Company; 4) Leon Fraser, Paris representative of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert. In thus projecting on a higher plane the luncheon club habits of Babbitts, these...