Word: chairmanning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After a series of parlor parleys in the best Hollywood manner, they emerged with a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," phrased with care not to desecrate the original, in which they petitioned the President and Congress of the United States to break off all trade...
Morris Sheppard of Texas, the gentle, whitehaired father of the late Prohibition experiment and diligent overseer of Senatorial campaign morality, last week went to the White House in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U. S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California (TIME, Feb. 6), had upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman...
While Senators were smacking the Administration's face with a negative (see p. 12), Representatives last week smacked it with a positive. Taking control of the Rules Committee right out of the hands of aged Chairman Sabath, they rammed through a new lease of life for the Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, chairmanned by Texas' large, lucky Martin Dies, then whooped it through the House by a vote...
...Administration's feeble grip on important Rules, which Messrs. Dies, Dempsey (New Mexico) and Cor (Georgia) ran pretty much to suit themselves during the hearings. At one point poor old Chairman Sabath was nearly in tears as he banged on the table and shouted: "Don't do this! Don't do this! Gentlemen, please...
Ways & Means' old Chairman Doughton, his spectacles quizzically pushed up on his forehead, presided over as rowdy a show as he has seen in his 28 years in Congress. The hearing room was jammed with Townsendites and other pension peddlers, for on the committee's schedule was no less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when...