Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifteen sober churchmen, appointed by the Philadelphia Federation of Churches, investigated such occurrences, resulted in the League for Protestant Action. Philadelphians who thought that the League might be just another letterhead, we're-agin-it organization were speedily disabused when they saw who the commission's chairman was. He is one of Philadelphia's most vigorous parsons, Rev. Dr. Nathan Raymond Melhorn, 67, a horny-handed, red-cheeked white-crested onetime farm boy who, since 1920, has been editor of The Lutheran, organ of the United Lutheran Church...
...pushed through the reorganization, was the man most mentioned for the paid presidency. He went so far as to dissolve his firm, presumably because the new constitution provided that the president must have no business interest in the exchange. But soon after the reorganization Conservative Arthur Betts was named chairman and president pro tern. For a year Chicago waited to see who would get the permanent post. Last week the Exchange's governors settled the question by upping Vice President Kenneth Lloyd Smith, 35, a conservative wheelhorse. His experience: four years in the office of Illinois' Secretary...
...years (1936-38) as unpaid, part-time president of the Edison Electric Institute, the industry's statistical and public relations organization. Last week the Institute revised its setup, voted itself a fulltime, paid ($40,000 a year) president. To Charles W. Kellogg, now 59, who resigned as chairman of Engineers Public Service Co. last week, went the job. His biggest task: to win the public's sympathy for the utilities in their long-standing feud with the Government...
...Interstate Commerce Commission since it was founded in 1887 has followed the not-too-sense-making custom of making each of its members in turn chairman for a year. Last week it broke with precedent, picked its outstandingly able member, Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 56, as chairman for a three-year term, beginning July...
Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, has tendered his resignation as chairman of the Department of Economics, a post he has held for many years, it was learned yesterday...