Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Telegram's stories proved to be only the prelude to a blasting letter from District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to Chairman Hatton Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee (where impeachment proceedings start) on the subject of Judge Manton. Mr. Dewey reported that, after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide...
...week's end, Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee received a communication from the Department of Justice. It announced the resignation of Judge Martin T. Manton...
Prompt to act was Kentucky's Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Preoccupied with Rearmament, he last week had another amendment to the present CCC act expiring June 1940, providing that in CCC "not less than two nor more than five hours a week be devoted to military training...
Last week, not General Wood, but wan, diffident Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald resigned. At 47 he retired to his philanthropies and etchings. Sears' directors promptly upped General Wood to the chairmanship, a post to which the retirement rule does not apply...
Grant, who yesterday completed his term as Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, blushingly denied that his proposal was prompted by any "delusion of grandeur" in connection with his famous sister-in-law to be. However, he added that Katherine's congratulatory kiss was "very pleasant...