Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Louis Johnson lowered the boom last week on congressional junketing in Army & Navy planes. Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, a veteran finagler, had planned a two-month "inspection trip" overseas and he had asked Johnson to provide air transport for himself and eleven other Congressmen. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the armed services, he might have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed...
Coolidge's Vice President and now board chairman of Chicago's City National Bank and Trust Co., celebrated his 84th birthday by brushing off newsmen who wanted his views on the state of the world. Growled Dawes: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...
Philip Murray waited for silence. The C.I.O. Steelworkers' president was concluding his final plea for a 30? -an-hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension...
...made no recommendations on what should be done about the trend to bigness. But Committee Chairman Celler thought that the antitrust statutes should be tightened up. His subcommittee will take testimony from Government bureaus, labor leaders and industrialists for the remainder of the year, and will probably have a fresh batch of antitrust legislation ready for Congress next January...
Died. Charles Dewey Hilles, 82, Old Guard GOPolitico (chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1912-16); in Speonk, N.Y. He ran William Howard Taft's unsuccessful bid for reelection, was President Taft's personal secretary during his White House term; later, as national committeeman from New York, helped elect Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...