Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON -- Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., of the House Committee investigating un-American activities, today refused Fritz Kuhn, head of the German-American Bund, permission to postpone his second appearance before the Committee, scheduled for tomorrow...
...October is the month of labor union conventions as well as the apple harvest: the A. F. of L., representing 4,006,354 last week in Cincinnati; the C. I. O. this week to San Francisco (see p. 27). Off to San Francisco went Brother John Lewis to chairman delegates of what claimed to be the U. S. No. 1 labor organization (its membership last year 4,037,877), certain proof that when the U. S. went into the trade union business, it went into...
...Chase National Bank, with its Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, its 43 branches, and its offices in ten cities, last week revealed that it had on hand some $3,097,011,177.46 with no place to go, that it had become the world's biggest bank...
...days of health he loved to tinker at his motorboat engines with his derby awry and his white shirt rumpling up under his suspenders. Not for more than a year had his quick laugh been heard in any of the 24 Chrysler plants. His friends feared that Board Chairman Walter Chrysler, burned out at 64 by the gruelling drive from the roundhouse to a paneled office, would never mix in motor's hurly-burly again...
Spriest of all financial oldsters is a testy, box-jawed Bostonian named Frederick Henry Prince, who is, among other things, the money behind Chicago's smelly Stock Yard and the Board Chairman of Armour & Co. Last week two big newspapers, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, carried a story about Financier Prince: that in view of his approaching (Nov. 24) 80th birthday, he would not stand for reelection to the chairmanship of Armour. The explanation given, that a younger man would be able to devote more time to the company's management, was plausible enough, since...