Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waging a joint fight for power. Both, chip by chip, were being whittled down to size. One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee...
Republican Policy Chairman Robert Taft agreed. Six Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be the first real setback McCarran and McKellar had met since they set out to crack the whip over the Senate...
...Chairman Vinson had promised that there would be no whitewash-and no fishing expeditions either. "I didn't catch the question," Vinson remarked blandly when one witness began to wander. "I was smoking a cigar...
Last week sallow, bigheaded Robert G. Thompson, New York State chairman and a member of the Communist national committee, took the stand and promptly ran afoul of the new Medina. Thompson had been head of Ohio's Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. Had he ever used the party slogan: "The Yanks are not coming?" Thompson was vague: "Very possibly ... in all probability . . . it would have been consistent with policy at that time ..." Judge Medina broke in impatiently: "That's a regular formula. It's maybe this, and maybe that, or I may have...
...champion of the world in the eyes of the National Boxing Association (a title good in 47 states). Last week, as he squared off against tired old (34) Gus Lesnevich in Yankee Stadium, he was out to impress the big holdout: the powerful New York State Boxing Commission, whose chairman, Eddie Eagan, thought that Charles ought to prove himself further...