Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt quickly disowned personal responsibility for a fortified Guam. He simply conferred with Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee, let that gentleman introduce a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to dredge the harbor at Apra, make the island usable for planes. His real purpose was clarified by his secretariat, which approvingly referred to Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Congress should authorize the fortification of Guam, and then the State Department should invite the Japanese to discuss the question." (A U. S. threat to fortify Guam helped to win Japan's agreement to the 5-5-3 naval ratio...
...inaugural stand, announce: "I herewith submit my resignation as a judge of the Superior Court. . . ." By waiting until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE Honoring His True Friend GOV. ARTHUR H. JAMES...
That night Widower James's dark-tressed, 22-year-old daughter Dorothy began her duties as Pennsylvania's First Lady. To the inaugural ball in magnificent Zembo Mosque thronged Pennsylvania's very fattest cats: ex-Senator Joseph L. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association ; Oilman Joseph N. Pew Jr.; Publisher Moses Annenberg (who drank Coca-Colas with a pretty legislative secretary); John M. Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly...
Last month Transamerica Corp., the vast holding company which sold its interest in Bank of America (Manhattan) in 1931, sold working control in Bancamerica-Blair to San Francisco Financier Ashby Oliver Stewart, who is now chairman of the board (TIME, Dec. 26). Obvious choice as active head of the firm was hard-working Hearn Streat, not only the employe with the longest service but credited in Wall Street as the underwriter with the widest acquaintance in the business. Last week he became vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee. Simultaneously, Bancamerica-Blair resumed (subject to stockholders...
Rangy, bespectacled Good Worker Henry, who is too modest to list himself in Who's Who, almost perfectly fulfills SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' definition of the disinterested professional director (see below...