Word: chairmanship
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...Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Observatory and president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has accepted chairmanship of a national committee formed to facilitate plans for commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Nicholas Copernieus, great Polish astronomer, the Keseluszke Foundation has announced...
Under the Chairmanship of Stephen W. Gifford, 3rd '44 the committee has hired Peter Cutler and his orchestra to provide the music. Cutler, who is, at present, playing at a Boston nightspot, has Dot Carroll as his vocalist...
Another division which forms an integral part of the group is the Press Committee under the chairmanship of Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law. Members of the Committee have contributed features and letters to the newspapers and in addition last year ran a series of some fifteen special articles by experts devoted to a discussion of problems of world prominence. These articles appeared in newspapers all over the country...
...first time since 1889 that a President had suffered a rebuff on a diplomatic nomination: on that occasion it was a cynical Senate which turned down an able man.* For Ed Flynn it meant the loss of three jobs in three weeks-the national chairmanship, committeeman from New York, boss of The Bronx...
...shouting, Ed Flynn merely replied that he would welcome an investigation: the Foreign Relations Committee ordered full-dress hearings. If Tom Connally can hold the Democratic lines intact his confirmation is assured. This week at a brief meeting in Chicago, Flynn relinquished the Democratic chairmanship to balding, dutiful Postmaster General Frank C. Walker. Said Ed Flynn of that meeting: "The air is oppressive with harmony around here." Then he packed up to sniff a different climate...