Word: chairmanning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes Dry, drinks Dry, rarely talks Prohibition. Because of a deadlock he, a Democrat, was chosen chairman of the Republican- controlled Senate Interstate Commerce Committee during the 68th Congress...
Salmon Oliver Levinson, 63. robust, mender of broken corporations, was one of the few civilians invited to the White House ceremony for the promulgation of the general Treaty for the Renunciation of War, because, as Chairman of the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, to him belonged much unofficial credit for originating the idea of making war illegal. Ceaseless agitator for peace, he had been recommended by no less a journal than the Manchester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize. Quite happy now, he sat back, watched the culmination of his endeavors...
...operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They all addressed him as "Mr. President...
Died. William H. Pigott, Sr., 69, of Seattle, Chairman of Pacific Coast Steel Co.; in Vancouver...
David Robertson Forgan, "Dean of Chicago Bankers" (Vice Chairman of National Bank of the Republic) last week addressed the Rotary Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he was born 67 years ago. In accents from which 40 years in the Midwest have not yet rasped the St. Andrews burr,* he said: "If England went to war tomorrow, she could borrow as much money as she wanted. France could not raise a dollar...