Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Military Committee promptly got down to work the next day under Chairman Omar Bradley, head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Brother of Singer Dorothy (Rosalinda) Sarnoff; no kin to RCA Chairman David Sarnoff. *Drs. James L. Whittenberger, Esther Hardenbergh and James V. Maloney...
When Schulte turned in a $93,091 loss for the first six months of 1949, the directors eased President Louis Goldvogel up to chairman of the board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...
...whose rise from St. Louis ward boss to a key spot in the Democratic Party helped put Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later to head a syndicate which bought...
...presented the Dick Hall House to Dartmouth in memory of her son, Richard Drew Hall. Her husband, the late Edward K. Hall, was a vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and chairman of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee...