Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas H. Eliot '28 and Orville S. Poland, chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts, were the principal speakers last night at a meeting of the Massachusetts Citizens Union in Phillips Brooks House...
...will then join in an open meeting with the Citizens' Union of Massachusetts at 8 o'clock when Thomas Eliot, New England Director, Wage and Hour Administration, and Orville Poland, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee, will speak on the subject: "War, the Dies Committee, and Civil Liberties...
...green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four inches, read to the assembled directors a letter, while Board Chairman Owen D. Young puffed a pipe. Nobody was taken by surprise. The previous evening they had all had a quiet evening talking about it at the Metropolitan Club: after serving 17 years together, and reaching G.E.'s retirement age of 65, Swope and Young wished to retire...
Thus, two of the land's biggest tycoons handed over one of the land's biggest corporations to their successors. It was a fine thing for G.E. to have as board chairman one who forced down the throats of European politicos a 70% reduction in German reparations, and who was now & then mentioned for the U. S. Presidency as a public-minded businessman. Likewise it was a fine thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees...
...every six months; 3) that until the preferred was retired RFC should have voting control of the bank; 4) that all directors had to be approved by RFC. The most important result of the deal was that Jesse Jones's good friend Walter Joseph Cummings was made chairman of the board, salary $75,000 a year...