Word: chairman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harry Truman had invited to Blair House 14 high military, diplomatic and congressional figures, including Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission and Vice President Alben Barkley. Secret Service men shooed people away from the sidewalk out front, and forbade photographers to use their cameras. When the visitors finally left, after 2½ hours with the President, they were grim-faced, and their jaws were clamped shut by order of the President. Senator Millard Tydings told reporters: "You wouldn't print the story...
Inspired by Goethe, whom Hutchins called "the world's last truly universal man," a committee of U.S. citizens (honorary chairman: Herbert Hoover) arranged to take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
...Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...
...worth of financing for his company, bankers insisted that he bring in a practical operating man to help run the plant. A year later, Fairchild himself picked Carl Ward, then general manager of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corp., brought him in as president and kicked himself upstairs as chairman...
...well as name. Soon Ward had enough directors to outvote Fairchild. Fairchild-who invented the Fairchild camera used by the U.S. Army for aerial mapping-prided himself on being an idea man. Ward threw most of his ideas in the wastebasket. Three years ago, fed up, Fairchild resigned as chairman...