Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Michael Schwab, 77, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. From counterjumper in a Pennsylvania village grocery store at 16, he jumped tJ the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. at 35, three years later sold Carnegie to a Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia...
...chief interest point for all Fresh- men is their own committee. After some two months of participation in the House's work certain Freshmen are selected by the Chairman of last year's group, Harry Newman '42, and they are given supervision of whatever projects they may wish to inaugurate besides the usual duties of gathering old books and clothes...
...note was first sounded by Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, when he said, "We are living in one of the overcast days of the world...
Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, stressed the fact that Harvard is "not an aloof and cold place," but one where "we're all interested in you." He urged Freshmen to meet as many of their classmates as possible...
...will be welcomed tonight by President Conant at a reception at the Union at 7:30 o'clock. Other speakers will be Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; the Reverend Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers; and Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admission. The reception will be preceded by a buffet supper in the Union at 6:30 o'clock...