Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Bishop Manning enlisted as a potent ally New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who assumed the chairmanship of the campaign and announced that during the Fair he wishes to promote a "great series of Sacred Concerts in the Cathedral." Beamed the bishop: "People elsewhere speak of [New York] sometimes as a place wholly given up to material and worldly interests. But where, I ask, is there any other city in our land whose mayor has come forward with such a proposal as this?" Last week, at a meeting of Mayor LaGuardia's fund- raising...
...York's Senator Royal S. Copeland is a self-dedicated friend of the working man who is regarded by Labor with much suspicion. His particular jurisdiction is seafaring men, which he claims by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring...
...because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference of Jews & Christians, a position left vacant by the death of Newton Diehl Baker (TIME, Jan. 3). Physicist Compton will be specially concerned with N. C. J. C.'s educational work, will consult regularly with his Catholic and Jewish cochairmen, Columbia Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley...
...Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall to one of the stanchest foes that TVA has in the House, Kentucky's Democratic Andrew Jackson...
...nearer home. Following the trend of the times, they successfully defeated the Oxford Pledge group, compromised on an anti-conscription resolution, and stood out firmly for a policy of placing economic sanctions on an agressor nation. Their ability was recognized when Robert Lane '39 was elected to the National Chairmanship by students from all over the North American continent...