Word: chairmanship
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...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...
...hazards of this situation are recognized by George. He knows that he is walking on eggs and that a fascinated and not too friendly audience is watching him. Aside from the moral question, George has a rule of conduct which may pull him through: keep your nose clean. The chairmanship of RFC is his for the asking when aging, gregarious Charles ("Senator") Henderson steps down...
...also against Russia. The Soviets did make two important concessions: 1) the press will have access to all Conference meetings; 2) the agenda will be open to any additional points connected with the peace treaties. In turn, Jimmy Byrnes supported Russia's demand for a rotating Big Four chairmanship (said Byrnes: "My friend Mr. Molotov feels strongly about this. . . . I want to go along...
Under the summer chairmanship of Samuel Heyman '48, Sunday bicycle trips have been going out every week to beaches and lakes in the vicinity. An average trip has about six people, usually including three girls and amounts to 25 to 30 miles of pedaling. Plans are now being made for the "College Week" trip to the Adirondacks in September...
More oil was poured on a still choppy sea by Brazil's Navy Captain Alvaro Alberto da Motta Silva, who took over the Commission's rotating chairmanship. The Captain-a chemist and a physicist, whose naval duties have left him a lot of time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus...