Word: chairmanship
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...company without a Pabst as an officer for the first time in 90 years, the Pabst family increased pressure on Perlstein to bring in a new man to run the company. Perlstein brought in as president Marshall S. Lachner, a vice president of Colgate-Palmolive Co., kept the chairmanship for himself. But Lachner failed to halt Pabst's sliding sales, and in 1956, for the first time in its history, the company showed a loss. Last fall Perlstein got Lachner's resignation, took over as president as well as chairman, began reversing many Lachner policies. One new policy...
During his long coverage of politics, Jackson has been a candidate for office in seven primary and four general elections (and lost only three primaries), served six years each as a state senator and a Democratic central committeeman. He has bagged appointive plums ranging from chairmanship of Ohio's Highway Construction Council (at $50 a day) to membership on the Strip Mine Commission. While drawing $8,000 a year from his Vindicator job, nimble Newsman Jackson since last May has helped make ends meet by working four days a week as an $8,400-a-year member of Ohio...
...Dias Silberstein, 53. In the Manhattan board room of his failing Penn-Texas Corp.. directors bounced Silberstein from his two top jobs and turned them over to a pair of "neutral" directors who swing the power balance on the board. Although Silberstein held on to the presidency, his chairmanship of the executive committee went to Milton C. Weisman, 62, law partner of New York City's Congressman Emanuel Celler, and his board chairmanship fell to Banker Aaron L. Jacoby...
...three Democrats, four Republicans) to 4 (three Democrats, one Republican) vote, the subcommittee booted Bernard Schwartz. Throughout it all, Schwartz's chief defender had been the subcommittee chairman, Missouri Democrat Morgan Moulder. Next day Moulder resigned his chairmanship, to be replaced by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, chairman of the full House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Schwartz characteristically repaid Moulder for his backing. Said he: "He turned out to be a weak...
...elected to Turkey's Grand National Assembly at Ataturk's personal order. For 14 years he remained an obscure backbencher who never achieved a committee chairmanship, spent his spare time earning a law degree from the University of Ankara. But, he recalls : "I was a very conscientious Deputy. I went to Parliament early in the morning and was often the last to leave at night. I was trying to learn how the government works from the inside...