Word: chairmanning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking before the Club's forty-second annual convention in New Orleans last Saturday, the student chairman, Ralph H. Cutler, Jr. '40 found enthusiastic support and received pledges of financial assistance for the proposal which aims to promote peace and solidarity among Western nations...
Arthur R. Reis, Jr., Princeton '39, declared in summing up the discussions at the Latin-American table that closer cultural ties must be established with South America. As chairman of the International Trade Table, D. A. Schmechel, Yale '40, stressed the importance of the Hull trade agreement program coupled with economic sanctions against aggressors, as a move for world peace...
...correspondents covering the State Department were told to go over to the White House offices. Secretary Hull crossed the street ahead of the newshawks. Also seated in the President's office when the press was admitted were UnderSecretary Welles and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When 25 correspondents had filed in (usually there are more than 100), President Roosevelt asked in surprise: "Where are they all?" The White House had outdone itself in secrecy to mask announcement of a momentous surprise step in U. S. foreign policy...
...Held a state funeral for Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois; heard that, to fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, will set an chairman of a scientific conference to be held today in Washington, D. C. on the question of "Princeton Measurement of Solar Radium...