Word: chairmanship
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...opening meeting, the council will discuss "The United States and Germany-Two Friendly Nations." In addition, four discussion panels will meet simultaneously between 3 and 5 p.m. each day, and a final plenary session at the Commander Hotel, under the chairmanship of Paul M. Herzog...
...county bosses finally selected Paul Lyman Troast, 58, a wealthy building contractor from Passaic, pushed him through a bitter, party-splitting primary last April. Troast, with no political experience, was known principally for his chairmanship of the commission that built the $220 million New Jersey Turnpike. But his campaigning has been as flat as his turnpike. He was overconfident, started too late, and let the Democrats gobble up most of the best radio and television time. When he did get on TV he looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered...
Bundy was appointed to the chairmanship of the Department in June, succeeding Rupert N. Emerson '22, who had held the post for the previous five years. Former heads of the Government Department have been Benjamin Wright '25 and A. Lawrence Lowell...
National Chairman Stephen Mitchell had wanted a banker to be general chairman of the Sept. 14 $100-a-plate feast in Chicago, because the chairmanship was essentially a money-raising job. But the banker he asked suggested that he appoint a lawyer, one John James Kelly. Mitchell checked with Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly, who said that was just fine. Kelly and the mayor are old friends, live in the same apartment building. But after Mitchell appointed Kelly, he learned that his chairman was not an old friend of very many Cook County Democratic organization men. The reaction...
...Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas E. (for Edward) Wilson, one of Chicago's most durable executives, finally decided to retire at 85, after 66 years in the meatpacking business. Into the chairmanship went Wilson's redhaired, Princeton-educated son, Edward Foss Wilson, 48, president since 1934. Wilson's new president and chief executive officer: trim (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) James D. Cooney, 60, a country lawyer turned corporation counsel, who joined Wilson in 1926. Educated at the University of Iowa, Cooney learned to fly in World War I, later hung out his shingle at West Union...