Word: chairmanship
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...powers he amassed, particularly the Rules Committee chairmanship, were stripped from his successor, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...
...troubles of the week were not confined to his staff. Vermont's persistent Republican Senator Ralph Flanders was determined that the Senate take a stand on "the problem presented by the junior Senator from Wisconsin." Realizing that he lacked the votes to remove McCarthy from committee chairmanship, Flanders changed his motion to a simple vote of censure...
...Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, one of the original members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, rose to defend his friend Lewis Strauss, and in so doing disclosed a little news himself about what Strauss found when he took over the AEC chairmanship...
...making a bad matter worse by furnishing excuses for continued action thereon. But the claim does not seem to apply here since all the witnesses concerned were represented by counsel of their choosing. In addition, a group of the Harvard Law School faculty formed a committee, under the chairmanship of Professor Arthur E. Sutherland, for the purpose of furnishing free advice and representation to any Harvard faculty members who might be called before an investigating committee. Actually, the most important bad advice given the Harvard faculty appears to be that given by Harvard Corporation. The Corporation could easily insure that...
...under the easy-going chairmanship of Senator Mundt, the hearings have aimed at anything but brevity. Mundt's smiling submission to stalling and deviations on both sides and to the points of disorder raised by McCarthy, has won him acclaim as an impartial and patient judge. But this leniency has let the inquiry roam through so many irrelevant topics, that talk of a Christmas recess is hardly unwarranted. At the rate hearings have progressed so far, public interest will surely ebb long before they are finished. Moreover, the television networks, which have taken terrific losses in return for their extensive...