Word: chairmanship
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Last night McCann said that he would not accept reappointment to any of these committees or the chairmanship of any other committee. He indicated that all men in these positions worked directly with the Senate President and that he couldn't serve in "good conscience" under Donahue...
...simultaneously holds top rank in the Presidium, the Secretariat and the Council of Ministers-a tripod power base that Khrushchev alone previously enjoyed. As chairman of the Party and State Control Committee, Shelepin is also the watchdog of Russia's entire economic and administrative life, and his chairmanship of the State Control Committee gives him handcuff control over party apparatus...
...after only four months, he began to rise with predictable speed: board member at the age of 37, then corporate secretary, chairman of the finance committee, vice president. In 1962 Crawford Greenewalt-whose wife is a Du Pont and a first cousin of Copeland's-moved to the chairmanship after 14 years as president. He advised the board that the best man to succeed him would be Copeland. Somewhat like Britain's Conservative Party, Du Pont's 30 directors seek instinctively to pick the man who can best unify them. They place a greater premium on group...
...Gates Rubber Co., has led his company abroad and diversified it so widely that it now has both egg factories and a mutual fund. To overcome the disadvantages of nepotism, Seattle's Simpson Timber has ruled that the only job open to the owners' family is the chairmanship, which is currently held by William G. Reed, 56. Racine's wax-making S. C. Johnson & Son turned the presidency over to an outsider to give 36year-old Samuel Curtis Johnson a chance to get further seasoning as executive vice president...
Leontief will assume the chairmanship of the company of senior and junior scholars next Fall, after a year of research at the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Calif...