Word: chairmanning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House the President called Colorado's stocky little Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, banker-lawyer chairman of the Senate subcommittee which had charge of the Relief bill. "Little Alva," to whom the President gave "the silent treatment" when he ran for renomination last summer, may not be so brilliant as his late father, "Big Alva," who was Governor of Colorado for two terms, or so colorful as his Uncle Billy, who ranched in the San Luis Valley (whence came Jack Dempsey) and was Governor thrice. But his spine last week was stiff for economy...
...spite of the President's pressure at week's end the subcommittee voted 8-to-3 for an amended bill in which the signal thing not amended was the House figure: $725,000,000.* The full Appropriations Committee (Chairman: Senator Glass) promptly approved the subcommittee's handiwork 17-to-7, reported it out to the Senate. There, Senator Adams predicted, "We will probably get the whey beat out of us ... as usually happens when the subcommittee makes an honest effort to economize...
...letter to Chairman Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, President Roosevelt urged revival of two pet projects: 1) The projected $200,000,000 Florida Ship Canal (on which $5,400,000 of WPA money was spent before work was discontinued in 1936), for the dual object of providing national defense and a commercially important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine...
Stanley C. Salmen '36, secretary to the Board of Freshman Advisers and former president of the CRIMSON, has been appointed General Secretary of the School and College Group of the Community Fund Campaign and Assistant Chairman of the Harvard Unit, it was announced last night by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Chairman of the General and Harvard groups...
Last week, with his usual tartness, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas took a fling at directors in general and McKesson & Robbins directors in particular. Plumping for responsible paid directors who would give real attention to their jobs, he urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would represent stockholders rather than management or banks. Although there might be plenty of practical problems in staffing directorates with paid "outsiders" (not part of the management) who had the time to know intimately the business they directed, Mr. Douglas said pertinently...