Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Withdrew, after once vowing that he never would, the nomination of his old poker pal, former Governor Mon C. Wallgren of Washington, as $14,000-a-year chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which did not think ex-Senator Wallgren was up to the job, had pigeonholed the nomination for three months...
...Congressman could scarcely believe his ears. "You would keep a Communist in school and let the Government pay?" demanded Ohio's Charles H. Elston. Said AEC Chairman David Lilienthal flatly: "I would...
Dana Reed was chairman of the '43 Album, and was reported missing in action over Italy on Armistice Day, 1944. His fellow editors voted to award their profits "in honor of Dana Reed and in recognition of undergraduate writing such as that in which he participated...
...teachers, Schweitzer in February, 1948, mailed out letters to various university officials, asking for recommendations. One of these letters was received at Harvard by Edwin B. Newman, chairman of the Psychology Department. To teach at Bloomfield, the letter said, a man must have these qualifications...
...their "anti-radicalism" campaign, Queens Democrats received aid from Long Island newspapers, local Republicans, New York City councilmen, three veterans' groups, and J. Parnell Thomas, then chairman of the House un-American Activities Committee...