Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery threw Bourbon County politicos into an uproar. The FBI went to work on the case. A citizens' committee was organized and elected Bourbon County's Lawyer Cassius M. Clay* as its chairman. Several county grand juries investigated the case but took no action. As time dragged on it began to look as though the mystery might never be solved...
Convention Chairman Konrad Adenauer insisted, for history's sake, that the constitution be adopted on that grim anniversary; he managed to have the final vote (53-to-12) taken five minutes before midnight...
...pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer and journalist (FORTUNE, 1930-38) to Librarian of Congress (1939-44), Assistant Secretary of State (1944-45) and deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO's first general conference (1946). Though he was not telling what he intends to teach, it seemed a sure bet that he would take on English A5, the traditional Boylston course in creative writing...
Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
Harvard meteor authority Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy and Chairman of the Astronomy Department, has been awarded the Smith Prize by the National Academy of Science, the College Observatory announced Thursday...