Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greater American interest in the Middle East has created a demand for these languages," Joshua Whatmough, chairman of the Department, declared yesterday. "Many people want to prepare for government or oil company jobs in that area," he said...
...Inland to the biggest sales ($395 million in 1948) and biggest profits ($38.6 million) in its history, had made it the seventh biggest U.S. producer. But Sykes had also established a rule for automatic retirement at age 65. This week, 65-year-old Wilfred Sykes stepped upstairs to become chairman of the executive committee. He turned over the presidency to his assistant, Clarence Belden Randall, 58. A Harvard-trained lawyer who this week also became head of the Harvard Alumni Association, Randall was named a vice president in 1930, had been Sykes's right-hand man since last October...
...When the sales of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. began to slip recently, Chairman-President James D. Mooney and Adman Ward M. Canaday, a top Willys stockholder, could not agree on what to do about it. Last week Mooney moved out as president, but stayed on as chairman. Canaday began shopping for another president. A likely candidate: ex-President Charles E. Sorensen, whom Canaday had kicked upstairs to vice chairman when Mooney came in three years ago. Thanks to an airtight contract from Canaday, Sorensen draws $1,000 a week for the next five years whether he does anything...
...Campaign Chairman Frederick M. Fialkow '51 expects the drive to slide over its quota, but last night urged men not already signed up to add to the donations. All blood collected goes to local hospitals for use by patients who cannot afford the cost of blood transfusions...
...three speakers are Albert Pratt, state UWF vice-chairman, Rupert Emerson '21, professor of Government, and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government...