Word: chairmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Modern Language Center was founded by William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literature. Berrien was Chairman of the Center's administrative committee from its start in 1946 to last year. Harry Levin, professor of Comparative Literature, took over the chairmanship in November. The rest of the administrative committee is composed of representatives from the different language departments...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 37, took on the national chairmanship of the Harriman for President Committee. F.D.R.'s third son is also a candidate for re-election as U.S. Representative from New York's 20th District. As Harriman's manager, he has the powerful Harry Truman-Adlai Stevenson wing of the party solidly behind his candidate. He was airily confident last week that Harriman will be a shoo-in for the nomination by convention time. Said he, flashing the familiar family smile: "I've never been in on a losing political race...
...serve as chairman of the Citizens committee, Hoffman brought along W. Walter Williams, Seattle businessman and chairman of the Washington State Republican Committee. Williams and Hoffman are old friends: when Hoffman gave up the chairmanship of the Committee for Economic Development in 1948 to take on his ECA job, Williams was elected CED chairman on Hoffman's recommendation...
...going to hold high positions in government and industry to understand why human beings act as they do. "You-can't find a group of people anywhere that will some day be as influential as the students at Harvard." This is one of the reasons why Skinner left his chairmanship of the University of Indiana psychology department to come here. His undergraduate course, Natural Sciences 114, is designed to put these ideas into the hands of students from all departments...
...Martínez Trueba stepped down from his high office and took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans to abolish the presidency and adopt the "collegiate" council government: ex-President Andrés Martínez Trueba...