Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cornfield, Harry Truman's crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...
...bald, ruddy lawyer, a wealthy Omaha Democrat-and the third man considered for the job. Harry Truman had wanted North Carolina's Jonathan Daniels, whose father had been Woodrow Wilson's Navy Secretary. Daniels didn't want the job. Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath had his own candidate -his friend, Judge Robert Quinn of Rhode Island. But Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson didn't want Quinn. In raising funds for Harry Truman's campaign, Johnson had got a good look at Frank Matthews and liked what...
...Sale. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry leaped to that suggestion: "Figures handed me show that the U.S. has lost the sale of more than 300,000 bales of cotton. That number of bales could have been sold to Spain during [the past] two years." Added Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations...
Wyman Holmes, chairman of the New England Committee for UNESCO, was master of ceremonies, and Paul L. Wright '49, College representative on the Committee acted as host for the UN Council...
Lamont Library will probably not stay open for the summer session, Herbert J. Spire '50, chairman of the Student Council Library Committee, reported last night...