Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's famed, roly-poly Conductor Pierre Monteux braved the 95° heat of New York City's Lewisohn Stadium ("The weather-eet ees brutal"), to lead the Philharmonic Symphony for a week. Gushed effusive Concert Chairman Mrs. Charles S. ("Minnie") Guggenheimer of Monteux's reading of Beethoven's Fifth: "Simply magnificent! It wasn't at all like Beethoven!" The directors of Chicago's Ravinia Music Festival advertised a smooth combo to perform some trios by Schubert, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The lineup: Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Gregor Piatigorsky. Northwestern University promised to lend...
Angry Man. During the negotiations, the radio industry was casting nervous glances over its shoulder toward Washington. Colorado's Ed Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined...
...Brookhaven on Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...
...office boy in his father's oil shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa. Fraser moved into, the top job when Sir John Cadman died...
...newsmen agreed that, while it was not much bigger than a dollhouse, it was attractive and well built. Georgia's salty old Congressman Carl Vinson, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a more positive reaction. Vinson's committee was studying a bill to spend an average of $16,500 apiece for houses for 7,798 armed services families. After a look at Woods's house, the Congressman demanded: "How come the Army needs $16,000 if another Government official...