Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repayment negotiated by that body with the Allies. When the House went Democratic last December, he found himself second only to Chairman Collier of Mississippi on the Ways & Means Committee. When Chairman Collier fell ill and withdrew to recover, Mr. Crisp stepped into the committee's acting chairmanship at a most difficult time. Taxes had to be raised to balance the Budget. Upon him fell the unpopular responsibility of drafting a billion-dollar revenue bill and pushing it through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction...
...Delegate Joseph Gordon Coates a similar blast was momentarily expected. But with the entire Conference in a state of preparatory flux the Mother Country quietly managed to keep her end up. She wangled her Secretary for War, Viscount Hailsham (famed when he was Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg), into chairmanship of the Conference's first and most important working group: the Committee on Empire Trade Promotion...
...John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton University, accepted chairmanship of the Motion Picture Research Council...
...election of William Averell Harri man to chairmanship of the system his father built was foreshadowed a year ago when he became chairman of the executive committee of Illinois Central (25% U. P. controlled), marking his first major entrance into railroads. Son Harriman. who was 1 8 when his father died in 1909, has exhibited diligence and ambition as a businessman but has yet made no great name for himself. His financial backing has come largely from his mother. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, who describes herself in Who's Who as "sole heir upon death of husband to estate...
Joseph Wright Harriman, founder-president of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., nephew of the late Railroader Edward Henry Harriman, retired to the board chairmanship in favor of Henry Elliott Cooper, formerly one of Chase National Bank's 74 vice presidents and a onetime member of John Davison Rockefeller's personal staff. Harriman National was founded as Night & Day Bank (open continuously), changed its name in 1911, still remains open for business from...