Word: chairmanship
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...former World War II subordinate, Charles H. Bell, then president of General Mills and son of the founder. At Bell's urging, Rawlings signed on as a vice president of the 34-year-old Minneapolis flour firm. And a year ago when Bell stepped up to the chairmanship. General Rawlings moved in as president and chief executive officer...
Wood spends most of his time either in this sort of research or in medical teaching, and the only administrative post he now holds is the chairmanship of the Johns Hopkins microbiology department. When he first came to Hopkins, in 1955, from St. Louis's Washington University, he served as vice-president in charge of medical affairs. He successfully shepherded the medical school through a four-year transitional period between the end of one university president's tenure and the firm establishment of the next regime, and then relinquished his administrative duties to return to his work in medical science...
...prisoners, recalled that he had not been paid $2,900,000 in cash for the release of 60 prisoners last spring. With just one telephone call, Robert Kennedy got a $1,000,000 pledge from an unidentified donor-a fund-raising feat that should qualify him for the chairmanship of the United Arab-Jewish Appeal. The sponsoring committee pledged the rest, Clay borrowed cash against the pledges, and the Royal Bank of Canada gave Castro a check for the additional...
...coming to power in 1961, the Kennedy Administration made changing the Rules Committee its first order of legislative business. The twelve-man committee had been split evenly between liberals and conservatives, and under the chairmanship of Virginia's conservative Democratic Representative Howard Smith, Rules had often kept liberal legislation from reaching the House floor...
...Stepping up to the honorary presidency of his huge Rank Organisation Ltd., Britain's shrewd Lord Rank, 73, turned over the chairmanship to John Henry Davis, 55. Five years ago, as Rank's deputy in running Britain's biggest film studios and theater chain (507 houses), Davis, a onetime accountant, decided that increased pay and leisure would lure working-class Britons away from the movies to other and costlier forms of entertainment. Accordingly, the Rank Organisation closed or sold 148 theaters and put the proceeds into dance halls, bowling centers, highway restaurants and a new electronics division...