Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen who deal with Snyder are close to unanimous in the opinion that he stands as a major obstacle in the way of sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy" at Snyder's door. When Newton repeated Snyder's answer ("All legitimate news of the Pentagon is available to the press") to a group of Pentagon reporters, it generated...
...sharp eye behind Vision belongs to Publisher William E. Barlow, 41, a personable promoter who persuaded about 27 investors to put up $750,000 to start the company in 1949. The biggest pocketbook behind Vision belongs to Board Chairman J. Noel Macy, of the family that controls a profitable string of nine dailies in New York's wealthy Westchester County. Barlow, who has steered through plenty of adversity of his own, will merge Tide's ankle-deep circulation (12,825) with the weekly Printers' Ink (circ. 32,231), another property in the wide-angle field of Vision...
Strauss and Congress, there was hope for an era of good feeling under new AEC Chairman John A. McCone, who talked of a more vigorous program-just what the committee wanted...
...industry still had some slack left, but it was not enough to feel really comfortable, and steelmen were thinking of expanding once again. National Steel Corp. Chairman George Magoffm Humphrey and President Thomas E. Millsop announced that they will build the industry's biggest new finishing plant since U.S. Steel Corp. put up the $500 million Fairless Works (TIME...
...past five years have paid off in remarkable progress. I believe we have had a good program." Snapped Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, author of a bill to spend $1 billion on advanced nuclear development by 1965: "It has failed miserably, else you might not be chairman of the commission...