Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House committee on Un-American Activities imposed upon itself a publicity rule: no sounding-off by individual members (including Chairman Martin Dies), only statements by the committee as a whole. With its new $100,000 appropriation in hand, the committee hired Lawyer Rhea Whitley, 35, to head its investigating staff. Mr. Whitley, stocky and curly-haired, was in FBI for ten years (1927-37), with a final "nice, easy, restful" hitch in Manhattan. He studied law at Washington & Lee, married a Sweet Briar girl. Un-Americans from Jonesboro, Ark. might get a break from him. He was born there...
...building or expansion of twelve naval bases, ten in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic. The lot would cost only $51,500,000 (to be appropriated later), but the forward sweep of the national defense program was momentarily halted by one little phrase: "And Guam, $5,000,000." Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was rudely surprised to find that this was a fighting phrase. Debate over it raged hot and angrily for three days. During the fight, the Congress and the country clarified some of their ideas on national defense...
...defense of Guam, Republican Representative Maas of Minnesota cried: "We want the world to know that we intend to defend every inch of American soil anywhere, at any time, from anybody." Chairman May of the Military Affairs Committee joined in and shouted: "Americans must take their stand for or against this country. The American frontier is where the Stars & Stripes...
...business advice, ex-Social Worker Hopkins relies on President William Loren Batt of SKF Industries, Inc., Treasurer Beardsley Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Chairman W. Averell Harriman of Union Pacific R. R. Dynamic Mr. Batt is an expert on scientific management; jovial Mr. Ruml used to be dean of the social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice...
...larger scale. Natural student inertia must be overcome, and consequently it might be well, while preserving the substance of the "symposia," to mold them into a somewhat different form. Instead of waiting for occasional student inspirations, each House master in turn should be empowered to name a chairman, preferably a faculty man, at regular intervals. Participating students would then be chosen, not solely from one House, but from all seven--and from the dormitories as well. Without losing the informality which now so largely contributes to the popularity of the forums, the could be regularized and their scope extended. Certainly...