Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand for the interservice farewell to Generals Weyland and Partridge at Boiling: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James S. Russell, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer...
Quinn had plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...when the young non-Communists -a majority of the U.S. delegation-tried to win representation on the festival steering committee, they got a lesson in Communist procedural manipulation. On the transparent pretext that a number of registration cards had been stolen, Festival Chairman (and French Communist) Jean Garcias flatly refused to recognize the majority's officers...
...that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...
...autos, bounding back from the red ink of 1958, Ford Motor Co. led the march far into the black. Chairman Ernest Breech reported that Ford's second-quarter earnings of $2.76 a share (Ford lost money in the same quarter last year) were the highest for any quarter in the company's history, lifted Ford's half-year earnings 1,676% over last year, to a record $5.22 a share. Though Ford's second-quarter sales were only $3.7 million higher than the first quarter, its profits rose $16.3 million, demonstrating what automen have long known...