Word: chairmanship
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...vote of 14-5, the committee decided that George was all right. Senator Taft and four other Republicans held out, but Administration aids expected the Senate to confirm George without much trouble. In the offing is the chairmanship of RFC-at least, George confided, Harry Truman had made a "thin hint" to that effect...
Details of the meeting, which has the approval of the Counsellor for Veterans' Office, are being arranged by a committee under the chairmanship of John C. Harper '46. Other members are Matthew J. Cullen '45, Robert Palmer NROTC, Paul Hellmuth 2L, Irving Kent 2L, John Mahoney 3L, Richard Weissman 2L, and Charles Porter 2L. Replies are expected from national headquarters of the various groups within the next two weeks, and further plans will be announced as they are formulated...
Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder was privately miffed because the President had appointed Allen to the board of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., presumably as a step to the chairmanship. That was the chairmanship Banker Snyder thought he had sewed up for himself. Long-jawed Chester Bowles, stubbornly trying to hold the price line against the pressures of almost everybody else, was at the feuding point with Snyder and wondering how long he could go along...
Frida Laski, wife of arch-Socialist Harold, agreed with people who thought he ought to be out of the Labor Party chairmanship. Said she: "It's about time we had a happy home life free from politics." But she wanted him at least to run for re-election to the executive committee at next spring's Party Congress, for if he didn't "then Lord Beaverbrook would be very happy, and I don't want that to happen...
Unable to move Sorensen-or break his airtight contract-Canaday moved himself from the board chairmanship to a newly created office of "chairman of the finance committee." Then he moved Sorensen to a back seat as vice chairman of the board. Thus the stage was set for a new president and board chairman, who proved to be none other than handsome, globe-girdling James David Mooney, 61, for 19 years head of General Motors' overseas business. Mooney will be both president and board chairman, thus hold the jobs formerly held by Canaday and Sorensen...