Word: chairman
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...crew-cut young man and the ' attractive woman pointing their fingers at each other (above) are not playing a new finger game. They are talking about the silent man in the middle: Dwight Robinson, chairman of Massachusetts Investors Trust. En gaged in conversation with Mrs. Robinson is TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who spent many hours with the Robinsons working on this week's cover story on M.I.T. and the man who runs it. Gart got to know the Robinsons well by being shadow to Robinson at his M.I.T. offices, visiting the Robinson home, romping...
...Union Theological Seminary), Dulles began to devote more and more time to considering the relationship of church and state in foreign policy, attended conferences and talks on the topic across the U.S., in Britain, in Chiang Kai-shek's embattled China. In February 1941 Dulles was named chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' influential Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace...
...There is a presumption," intoned Democratic Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "that career foreign-service officers nominated for ambassadorial posts have some qualifications. There is, however, no such presumption that noncareer nominees are qualified. The burden on noncareer people is to prove to the committee that they are qualified." Arkansas' Fulbright was talking to young (33) Ogden Rogers Reid, former publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fulbright had every intention of using "Brownie" Reid to prove his argument that noncareer ambassadorial...
...Chairman Fulbright opened last week's hearings on the Reid nomination with the announcement that he had "15 or 20 minutes of questions." He then proceeded to grill Reid for 5½ hours. Asked Fulbright: "Tell the committee where you had your formal education." Reid cleared his throat, said he had been formally educated at Yale...
Once upon a time the U.S. Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee sat down to begin hearings on the confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and one of the ablest and thorniest figures in U.S. public life, as Secretary of Commerce. At that time an informal poll of the committee members showed that Strauss would win committee approval by a vote of 14-3. Last week, two months and 1,739 rancorous pages of testimony later, Strauss finally did win the committee's approval-by a cliffhanging vote of 9-8 (the squeaking...