Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from an operating company to its present holding company status. He was one of the first oilmen to foresee the necessity of restricting the oil output and was a pioneer exponent...
...Senator Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio, the President's good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...
Prohibition. The Association's policy to avoid bitter feelings by hushing discussion of Prohibition repeal was jeopardized by the presence of a determined wet wing, consisting largely of New York lawyers headed by John Giraud Agar. Firm chairmanship was necessary to keep the subject sidetracked...
Resigned. Curtis C. Cooper; from the presidency of General Motors Acceptance Corp. and the chairmanship of General Exchange Insurance Corp., to be succeeded in both positions by John J. Schumann Jr., vice president of the Acceptance Corp...
Installed in their new group of six rooms formerly used for officers in Austin Hall, the members of the Student Advisory Committee of the Law School are doing some of their hardest work at this time, when the Ames competition is just getting under way. Under the chairmanship of W. J. Kyle 3L, the group has completed the assignment of first year law men to law clubs, of which there are more than 70. These clubs will meet in a series of arguments, after which the winners will be paired in their second year, and the finals of the Ames...