Word: chairmanship
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...week's end, after listening carefully to declarations of support from across the Democratic spectrum, O'Brien was on the brink of agreeing to return to the chairmanship provided that no significant opposition arises. If he says yes, it is virtually certain that he will be elected chairman when the Democratic National Committee meets in Washington March 5. O'Brien will have to leave a political-consulting firm he recently founded, following a brief stint as the president of a New York brokerage house, and slow the work on a book on his years with Kennedy...
...writers attracted many eminent authors, including Samuel Eliot Morison, John P. Marquand, Katherine Anne Porter, Ogden Nash, J. D. Salinger and Peter De Vries. In 1962, after almost 50 years with the company, Thornhill turned the presidency over to his son, Arthur H. Jr., but retained the chairmanship, in which he remained active until his death...
...shaggy, disarmingly unprofessorial professor who lectures without a tie, lambastes most of his colleagues, and delivers endless sotto voce manifestos. "I'm making a conscious, premeditated effort to radicalize sociology," says Horowitz. In pursuit of this goal, he passed up more lucrative offers last summer to accept the chairmanship of the sociology department of the Livingston campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University...
Into Politics. With his financial base secure, Kennedy began to harbor political ambitions. He poured $25,000 into Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, raised another $100,000 from friends. F.D.R. rewarded him with public office-the chairmanship of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, appointment to the Maritime Commission, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
John Kerrigan, who barely sneaked by two years ago, rolled to victory this month in the school committee race, politicking has brought him the chairmanship, and the disclosure of his ties with a Dorchester school repairs contractor got him into the headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...