Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Signed by the President, with a long statement applauding it, and flaying sales-tax schemes like the Townsend Plan, together with Treasury-raiding schemes like the Connally amendment (two Federal dollars for one State dollar), was the Social Security revision act. To study further Security revision, he added Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board (but, strangely, not Administrator Paul McNutt of the Security Agency) to his Cabinet committee on this subject...
...April 1938 the name of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan was on every front page in the land. His expulsion from his post as TVA chairman by President Roosevelt brought the cry from New Hampshire's Senator Bridges, "This is an American Dreyfus case." But by last week most U. S. citizens had forgotten the tall, slant-jawed "Bald Eagle" of Yellow Springs, Ohio, were surprised to learn he was still in there fighting...
Without warning Assistant Secretaries Louis Arthur Johnson (War) and Charles Edison (Navy) suddenly announced the creation of a civilian advisory committee to work with the joint Army & Navy Munitions Board. Its personnel: Able Edward R. Stettinius Jr., young (38) whitehaired chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings...
...Olympic Committee by trying, unsuccessfully, to pay her own way first class. She spent her time in first class anyway, with newspapermen, taking literally the Committee's instructions to keep the kind of training to which she was accustomed. So the Committee's sober Chairman Avery Brundage threatened to kick her off the team. Her newspaper friends, who had been finding the voyage dull, set the radio crackling. By the time the Manhattan docked and Mr. Brundage had made good his threat, factions in the athletic world were divided in partisan schisms. Eleanor was thoroughly sore and dejected...
...owners of the old whaleship John Carver formed American Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched it to the world...