Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks he is wittiest". These brands of favour are eagerly reprinted in the metropolitan papers; only to be hauled forth and brought to light years later when the recipient is a candidate for the Presidency or the Chairmanship of a mighty concern...
...lifted from depositors' accounts to peg Harriman bank stock on the market, he concluded that criminal prosecution of Bankster Harriman just then would endanger other Clearing House banks. To postpone such prosecution until the bank's affairs were in order, Mr. Harriman was eased into the board chairmanship, and Mr. McCain induced Henry Elliott Cooper, onetime Chase National vice president, to take the presidency of Harriman National Bank & Trust. On the witness stand last week Mr. Cooper recalled that Mr. McCain had said: "We won't let your bank fail, Henry. The Clearing House will stand behind...
Meanwhile, the 1936 Album, under the Chairmanship of Deric Nusbaum, is fast nearing completion and will be ready for distribution in the near future...
...year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight ago, is the honorary (payless) chairmanship of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank...
...ursine Senator from Idaho was a potent person to be reckoned with in their dealings with the U. S., that, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he had an authority comparable to that of the Secretary of State himself. Now Senator Borah has lost his Committee chairmanship, and the New Deal goes its international way without his aid or advice. When Monopoly was the great issue under Roosevelt I, Senator Borah was in the thick of the fight. Since then political ideology has moved on into fresher fields, more social than economic, with the result that the Idahoan...