Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan for reprisal. Northerners said they would: 1) fight harder than ever for a strong civil rights plank at next year's Democratic national convention; 2) renew and increase their efforts to dilute the authority of Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, leader of the Southern bloc and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee; and 3) refuse to back peanut, tobacco and cotton subsidies, along with other legislation dear to the South. "Cotton," snapped Iowa Democrat Neal Smith, "was hurt worse than labor in that vote...
Angeles. At stake were 5,000 of 11,000 spectator seats which California Oilman Edwin Pauley claimed had been promised to his host committee. When National Chairman Paul Butler told him flatly to accept 1,500 tickets or lose the convention to an Eastern city, Pauley resigned, and a new committee, formed by National Committeeman Paul Ziffren and headed by former Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, accepted Butler's terms. Main item of interest in the settlement: many Democrats thought that Butler and Ziffren, both longtime, diehard Stevenson supporters, had nipped a plan to pack the galleries...
...Understanding, which will train any U.S. executive (and wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State Department officials. "Long overdue," said Republic Steel (and B.C.I.U. Policy Board) Chairman Charles M. White. "It could mean the end of the overseas misfit...
...started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim, quiet-spoken Bob Kirkwood, 54, did so well at the job that he became president and chief executive officer in 1958, when James Thomas Leftwich moved up to chairman (Leftwich resigned three months...
Died. Carle Cotter Conway, 81, dynamic, debonair chairman (1930-50) of Continental Can, who in his long (1912-58) career broadened the use of can containers, steadily increased the number of his plants, boosted sales from $70 million in 1933 to $398 million in 1950, as a liberal-minded businessman headed and whipped into action the nine-man committee appointed to reorganize the Stock Exchange, saw his own recommendations embodied in the Exchange of today; in Lake Placid...