Word: chairmanship
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...undergraduate organizations banded together last night to form the Interclub Committee on Foreign Affairs, under the chairmanship of Martin G. Silverman '60, president of the U.N. Council...
...criticism of the young Democratic senators, now secure in positions of authority in that house, represents an effort to exert a greater influence over the conduct of foreign affairs. The trip to Russia of Senator Humphrey, the remarks of Senator Fulbright both before and since his ascension to the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, and the speech last week of Senator Mansfield on Berlin are recent examples of their endeavors to shape and influence policy...
...oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green had known for months that the chairmanship of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee was too much for him. Last December Green underwent surgery for cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion...
...China the government chairmanship has been vacant since Mao Tse-tung stepped down in December (while hanging on to his all-powerful chairmanship of the party). In the rumor mills of Hong Kong the favored candidate to succeed him is Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), 68-year-old widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, and sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek. Though not a member of the Communist Party, Madame Soong has often been trotted out to endorse Red policies. Long regarded by many an overseas Chinese as a cultured, sincere woman, she is both admired...
After serving as dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark. N.J., he went back to teaching, as professor of pastoral theology at General Theological Seminary. He has been Bishop of Missouri since 1951. In 1956 he assumed the chairmanship of an Episcopal delegation studying the problems of the Church of South India...