Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freistadt had been picked by the prestigious National Research Council, the top U.S. organization in the development of scientific talent. In any case where study involved a matter of national security, the student was checked by the FBI. "The introduction of security procedures into nonsecret fields," said AEC Chairman David Lilienthal, "would establish a precedent of grave and far-reaching consequence to our scientific and educational system." Nonetheless, the fact remained: the AEC had dished out scholarships to train young men who, because of party membership, could never be eligible to work for the AEC or, for that matter...
...political miracle that he had held on as long as he had. He had not elected a Democratic U.S. Senator in New Jersey since 1936, he had not elected a governor since 1941. He was still a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but his once powerful voice in national councils had faded. He could no longer guarantee to deliver the whole of New Jersey; only Hudson County remained in his clutch, and it was slipping from...
Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton hopefully called last week's voting "a miniature general election." Jubilant Conservative politicians flatly predicted a Conservative victory at the national polls next year. Nevertheless, both sides realized that less than two-fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...
There was other good news. The elite of Kabuto Cho, Tokyo's Wall Street, met at the Tokyo stock exchange, wearing their best pin-striped trousers and their warmest smiles. There was some happy oratory. One speaker exclaimed: "The blossoms are opening;" the meeting's chairman called for a teuchi shiki (an old Japanese ceremony of congratulations). The assembled bankers and brokers solemnly rose and clapped their hands in unison, 13 times. Then they adjourned for a buffet lunch of roast beef, beer and strawberry shortcake...
...Sample membership: James F. Brownlee, chairman of the Business-Education Committee of the Committee for Economic Development; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Lester B. Granger, executive director of the National Urban League.; Leo Perlis, national director of the National C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the board of R. H. Macy & Co.; Richard Joyce Smith, chairman of the Board of Education of Fairfield, Conn.; James A. Stevenson, president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. The full committee will total...