Word: chairmanning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers." When the doors were opened Chairman Alexander Legge announced his Board's first concrete achievement...
Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, Chairman of the Senate's Naval Affairs Committee, declared, however, that the President was legally powerless to interpose an undue delay in carrying out the will of Congress. The altercation harked back to the last administration, when President Coolidge vainly sought to induce Congress to eliminate the mandatory time-clause from the building bill to meet just such an emergency. (TIME...
...Smarting under the lambasting given his pet legislation. Chairman Reed Smoot came to the Tariff Bill's defense: "I want to put the American people on guard against a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation. . . . Criticism is inspired by propagandists of selfish groups. . . . We are joined in the intention to write the best tariff bill ever enacted...
...descended once more upon the potent brewers of Burton-on-Trent when Edward of Wales flew down from London, visited the brewhouse, mixed for himself a special vat of extra strong mash to be known as ''Prince's Brew." Waiting at the flying field to greet him was the Chairman of the Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate...
...turn on the water, sir," said Chairman Colonel the Right Honorable John Gretton...