Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, seven years ago, the late great Charles Albert Coffin† resigned the chairmanship of General Electric Co. (which he founded by merger, 1892) to Owen D. Young, his practical associates established in his honor the Charles A. Coffin Medal. It goes each year to a railway company which during the year has made a distinguished contribution to the development of electric railway transportation for the convenience of the public and the benefit of the electrical industry. Last week the recipient was the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Electric railway men consider it the most important accomplishment...
...subsidiaries and their prospects. Friends of Mr. Porter know that he was born in the largest house in Washington Square, Manhattan, that his golf is poor, his marksmanship good, that he likes to fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym...
...statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. He became also a director of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., Lord Melchett's British counterpart of I. G. Farbenindustrie...
...Information Committee, under the chairmanship of W. W. Foshay '31, prepares a registry of available living quarters in Cambridge, and conducts an information bureau in the early weeks of the Fall term. The Handbook Committee, with its chairman A. R. Maynard '30, edits and publishes the Harvard Handbook...
...Guest at the White House all week was Hubert Work M. D., being eased out of the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. His visit was interpreted as a parting token of the President's esteem. That his resignation, announced as "due to ill health," left him under no misapprehension, he showed by saying...