Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1933 he, aged 68, accepted the chairmanship of the national advisory board of the Crusaders (Wets) saying: "The nation vitally needs the political weight of the serious-purposed, educated, patriotic youth of the country...
...Irving Bush, who was kicked upstairs to an impotent chairmanship last spring, it was an important industrial war. To John A. Stephens, able young (37) president of the company, and most of his directors, Irving Bush was shadowboxing. They waged no proxy campaign, they loosed no blasts of publicity. Fact was they thought the whole thing bordered on the fantastic...
Tennessee, Tammany and Texas combined last week to name the new Speaker of the House-Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois. Out of the deal Tennessee got the floor leadership. Tammany the assistant floor leadership, Texas the chairmanship of the potent Committee on Appropriations...
...appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated by Mr. Byrns...
Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., 31, vice president & treasurer of Freeport Texas Co. (sulphur) was elected president succeeding Eugene Levering Norton who stepped up to a less active chairmanship. Last month able President Williams marketed $2,500,000 of Freeport's preferred stock through his good friend (since Harvard Business School days), Partner Albert H. Gordon of Kidder, Peabody...