Word: chairman
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of Harry Payne Whitney. A devoted Democrat, he lent the National Committee money when things were at their gloomiest. "Sonny" Whitney helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is board chairman of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. and president of Whitney Industries, Inc., a New York State lumbering company. Since the election, Whitney has been promoted from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force to Under Secretary of Commerce...
Jacob Blaustein, 56, a multimillionaire who lives at Pikesville, Md. Blaustein built a fortune in Texas and Pan American oil, is now president of the American Trading & Production Corp. A friend of Franklin Roosevelt, he made surveys of D.P.s in Germany, was vice-chairman of the Petroleum Administration for War Marketing Committee. He is now president...
George Luckey, vice-chairman of California's Democratic State Central Committee and a state senator. A Pauley man, Luckey was a good contributor, stuck with Truman while Jimmy Roosevelt flirted with Eisenhower and Douglas. Since the election Luckey has been fit to bust out of his cowboy boots, told a Democratic meeting recently that the state needed "a strong man for governor" who can "walk into Washington, and to the White House, and demand things for his state without being embarrassed...
Curtis Colder, member of Louis Johnson's party finance committee, board chairman of Electric Bond & Share, and longtime business associate of Floyd Odium (Calder was president of American & Foreign Power from 1927 to 1944). His $3,000 check for the party arrived Nov. 22, 1948, nearly three weeks after Truman's victory. The President offered to make him Secretary of the Army; he refused...
Armored cars paraded through flag-draped Prague last week. Outside the huge Industrial Palace stood a cordon of Czech security police carrying Tommy guns. Inside, 1,000 delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Czech Communist Party met. Joseph Stalin was named "honorary chairman" of the meeting; his representative, Cominform Boss Georgy Malenkov, attended in his stead. The congress sent a telegram to "Dear Comrade Stalin": "We shall always stand faithfully by the side of the U.S.S.R...