Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week resignations poured in upon the White House as Republican officials quit before the oncoming Democratic tide. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. stepped out as Ambassador to Mexico. James Clifton Stone surrendered the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board. Gustaf Aaron Youngquist, appointed as the Department of Justice's Dry hope, resigned as Assistant Attorney General...
...opposes a Federal sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle...
Under the chairmanship of Professor Hall, the Harvard committee launched its drive among the faculty last night, with an appeal mailed to about 1,200 officers of the University. With the assent of the Corporation, the committee is asking the salaried officers of the University to make voluntary contributions. Obligation of Faculty...
...Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. who resigned last May because "the dampness of the climate here affects my ears," was elected vice chairman of foggy San Francisco's Bank of America N. T. & S. A., fifth largest U. S. bank. His friends hoped he was slated for the chairmanship now held by Amadeo Peter Giannini. As vice chairman he will be the bank's chief executive officer...
Wendell Louis Willkie, formerly a partner in the law firm of Weadock & Willkie, was elected president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., big Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright Utility holding company. Bernard Capen Cobb, who has held both the presidency and chairmanship for the last year, will continue as chairman, the corporation's chief executive post...