Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty Committee appointed last spring to consider new combination fields of concentration has met this fall and entertained several schemes submitted to it from various departments, Chairman Arthus S. Pease, professor of Latin, and Walter Channing Cabot, Fellow, said yesterday...
Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...without the judges having had a chance to decide whether they were scrutinizably fair, feasible and equitable. He had attacked many a plan as inequitable for giving the common stock rights when it really had no equity if creditors and preferred stockholders got their just due. When Douglas became Chairman of the SEC, he sponsored the Chandler Act which set up a special SEC division to study reorganization plans and inform judges about them as "friends of the Court...
Speakers will include Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the University Observatory, and Kenneth V. Thimann, assistant professor of Plant Physiology, and chairman of the local branch of the Association...