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...George's character was legend when Dwight Eisenhower was a little-known lieutenant colonel, but not until the Eisenhower Administration did George emerge as a national figure in the conduct of foreign affairs. In 1955, when the Democrats took over Congress, Eisenhower urged George to pass up the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee and to become, instead, Foreign Relations Chairman. George agreed, became the strong voice of foreign-policy bipartisanship on Capitol Hill (TIME. April 25, 1955). When Ike asked for a free hand in dealing with the Formosa area crisis, George's support produced an overwhelming...
...swept helicopter honors for speed and altitude at the 1953 Dayton Air Show, and Piasecki ranked as the No. 1 manufacturer of big transport helicopters. But inside the executive suite raged a struggle for control: Piasecki men v. Rockefeller men. In March 1955 Frank Piasecki lost even the board chairmanship to President Berlin. Four months later, almost completely shorn of power and with nothing left but a directorship, he walked out to form his own outfit, the Piasecki Aircraft Corp. The Berlin-operated helicopter company quickly slammed the door. In two successive special stockholders' meetings it changed the name...
Parsons retires from department chairmanship this year to permit the office to rotate and to spend more time on writing and teaching. He stresses his desire to spend more time working with graduate students. While carrying one of the College's heaviest teaching loads, he constantly revises his old lectures and annually creates new courses. At the same time, he runs two informal graduate seminars each week. "Parsons has influenced more young men than any other sociologist," another professor believes. Comments upon his "disciples" rum from extreme comparisons to Marx's protagonists to hesitant admissions that "there is some element...
This afternoon, under the chairmanship of Herbert J. Spiro '50, instructor in Government, they will debate the possibility of a plebiscite in Cyprus. The Assembly will close with a vote on the discussion...
...years later, in March of 1925, the Senate had to decide whether Senator Ladd, senior member of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, should retain the chairmanship of that committee. Ladd, a Republican, had joined with "Fighting Bob" La Follette and two other Republican senators who had come out openly in favor of Progressive goals and means. The group had also opposed President Coolidge in the election of the year before. Summarily, the Republican Party had ordered that Ladd and the three other "mavericks" be no longer invited to future Republican conferences or to fill Republican vacancies on senatorial...