Word: chairmanship
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...committee that recommended Miss Du Bois for the Professorship was under the chairmanship of President Katherine E. McBride of Bryan Mawr College, and included Radcliffe and Harvard scholars in all major academic fields...
...block of stock, they freed it from a voting trusteeship in the Chase National Bank, where it was placed on orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Chase National, whose President Percy J. Ebbott had joined other Central directors in turning down Young's demand for the chairmanship of the board, might well have voted the stock against Young. Now, with his own holdings and those of friends, Young could count on 17% of the 6,447,410 Central shares outstanding...
I.C.I, and its current boss, Dr. Alexander Fleck, a dour Scottish chemist who took over the chairmanship last July, think that the argument is poppycock, have recently issued a booklet defending the company's position. Says Fleck: "Private enterprise has . . . enabled our organization to grow in a way which is vigorous, resilient, progressive and effective." He points to the fact that I.C.I, spends $10 million a year on research alone, has upped postwar plastic production 210%, and already has spent almost $400 million for new capital construction in the United Kingdom since 1945. With their new program, Fleck...
Beer will succeed Valdimer O. Key, Jr., professor of Government, who has held the department chairmanship for only one year. Key assumed the post when McGeorge Bundy was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last fall...
...this arbitrary system has often brought high minded and competent men to chairmanships, Congress and the country have only luck to thank. Cases like Langer's clearly show what can happen when this kind of luck runs out. The seniority system frequently bars the ablest members of the Senate from positions of responsibility. It favors small, one-party states by allowing their senators to accumulate long records of uninterrupted service on the committee. But the ability to be re-elected has no real connection with either party loyalty or competency for a chairmanship...