Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a bit of sweet music by Jack Hill and his band of eight Harlemites, Chairman Kuhn started the ball rolling by introducing the master of ceremonies, George C. MacKinnon, a columnist for the "Record" and prominent song writer...
Last week the U. S. House of Representatives devoted an afternoon to discussing asthma, its cause and cure. Said Congressman Frederick Cleveland Smith of Ohio: "Mr. Chairman, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, is located a laboratory that puts out a certain medicine known as the Nathan Tucker Asthma Remedy. A Food and Drugs Act passed last year would compel firms of this sort to cease prescribing by making a diagnosis through the mails. . . . I have practiced medicine for a good many years and have myself prescribed this remedy many times. . . . I know physicians who use it themselves. Just before I left...
...loan made by 16 Manhattan banks started the corporate wheels moving. Then Stockbroker Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing, a man of no mean financial daring, took over as chairman of the Bond Sales Committee, set out to sell $27,829,500 in 4% fair debentures. But by February 1937 only $20,000,000 of the bonds had been sold and Grover Whalen had to pull a high-pressure stunt out of his black fedora. With the greatest of ease Maestro Whalen invented the Terrace Club, purportedly swank dining & wining place on the fair grounds, with a membership restricted...
...last week's directors' meeting President McCarter declared: "I feel that the time has come when I should lighten up a little." Obedient as ever, the directors created the new post of chairman of the board for Thomas McCarter, upped Vice President Edmund Waring Wakelee, a silver-haired bachelor of 69, to the presidency. This took some routine executive work from founder McCarter's tiring shoulders, but he made it clear that he remained the boss...
...previously announced, at the head of the list is Hildegarde, who is traveling from New York especially for the Yardling gathering. According to George A. Kuhn, Jr., Chairman of the Smoker Committee, she will do some "double piano work" and "will sing in her own inimitably style." The "women and song" motif will be completed when "the first lady of swing," Ella Fitzgerald, gives out with some of her famous arrangements...