Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rugged, ruddy Walter Gropius has been at Harvard two years and is now the popular chairman of the Department of Architecture. He helped assemble last week's show, found its success satisfying for one reason in particular...
Specific. The man who heads the biggest company in the biggest U. S. industry, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp., also appeared before the Senate committee last week, also espoused the Brookings concept. Said...
...good reason why the Temporary National Economic Committee has been unable to shake off its pseudonym of Monopoly Committee is that it has done a lot of talking about monopoly. Last week the committee was busy looking into the possibilities of patent monopoly. Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney and his conferees chose first to hear from the automobile industry, probably the most beneficent of all patent users. This astute stage-managing will make all the more pointed the conclusions from this week's quizzing of the glass industry, which the committee considers a bird of just the opposite color...
...clearinghouse of industrial information, a super trade-association. But under Roosevelt N. A. M. has become more and more the Voice of Industry, first pro-New Deal, then so bitterly anti that N. A. M. sound-offs sounded like Republican campaign speeches. Two years ago under the guidance of Chairman Colby Chester of General Foods Corp., N. A. M. developed a new attitude, something which might be termed "reasonable liberalism," approving certain New Deal reforms, asking for modest changes, waving the olive branch rather than the hatchet. Last week the Voice of Industry, despite some raucous cracks from the gallery...
...group, of which Joseph Prescott 4G, an assistant in English, is the chairman, is attempting to "make obscure plays get up and walk around," while making the study of the drama congenial and amusing. Several men who inquired whether the group's study would be a help in passing their PhD's were unceremoniously dismissed...