Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greenfield is one of the biggest real-estate operators in the country, controls banks, department stores, a candy store chain (Loft), theaters and several of Philadelphia's big hotels. He is active in both Christian and Jewish charities, a prime promoter of National Brotherhood Week. He was vice chairman of Johnson's fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes of an important Truman speech. Greenfield wired back: buy the air time, and make it half an hour. When Truman rode through the streets...
...additional bother of that kind is de minimis,"-smiled the bald-headed chairman of the AEC. The newsreel men doused their floodliehts. Referring only occasionally to some notes, Lilienthal made his statement...
...Approved a bill strengthening the hand of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (see Armed Forces) by giving him specific "direction, authority and control" over the armed forces instead of "general" authority previously granted. It would set up a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the principal military adviser to the President and the Defense Secretary, but giving him no vote on the JCS. The bill also limits the power of the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries to appeal over the Defense Secretary's head to the President. The House has not yet acted, and seemed...
...Street investment company. One of the nation's most spectacular financiers (e.g., RKO, Greyhound Lines), Odium has made a specialty of buying up control of companies, putting them in good running condition, then selling out at a handsome profit. A recent buy (1947): Consolidated Vultee (he is board chairman). Other Atlas interests: United Fruit, American & Foreign Power (a subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). A longtime Democratic angel, Odium was at first none too wild about Harry, but stoutly supported him. He gave $3,000 himself, got his associates to add $20,000 more...
...Kansas City personal and political friend of Harry Truman. Tall, white-haired Tom Evans lent Truman $5,000 to help finance his 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1948 Evans gave $3,000 himself, raised $100,000 more in the Midwest. He owns Kansas City's station KCMO, is board chairman of Crown Drug Co., a chain with 85 stores in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma...