Word: chairman
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...portrait of his grandfather Albert I at the Smithsonian Institution, impressed National Gallery of Art Director John Walker by correctly judging the relative age of two Byzantine Madonnas. At a White House state dinner, the King met many old friends of the Belgians, including Herbert Hoover, 1915-19 chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium and friend of King Albert...
...Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was hospitalized for quick surgery for lung cancer; doctor's prognosis: he will be away from his desk for a minimum of five or six weeks (acting chairman: General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...
...deputy. A deputy could be picked from among the seasoned hands, e.g., Assistant Defense Secretary (Comptroller) Wilfred McNeil, or the Air Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects: AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime Air Force Under Secretary; Presidential Assistant (for National Security) Gordon Gray, onetime Army Secretary; retired General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, who might be loath to give up the prestige, house, $30,000 salary and perquisites that go with his job of president...
...chair for Armenian Studies at the University has been subscribed and over-subscribed, according to Manoog S. Young, chairman of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research...
Veritas members nevertheless sent out hundreds of letters to classmates and alumni acquaintances, urging protest against the appointment. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 wrote to the Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 (then Chairman of the Board of Overseers), asking "whether or not you now approve of the Oppenheimer appointment as William James lecturer," and "your views as to Dr. Oppenheimer's moral qualifications to lecture on the subject of ethics and philosophy." Though Robertson's letter began with some valid questions (the second never answered), it ended with a polemic...