Word: chairmanship
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...Commission, under Willard's chairmanship, worked steadily through the vital winter months of 1916-17. Before the declaration of war, when the nation and the President thought there was still a chance of peace, the seven men devised a system of purchasing war supplies, planned a press censorship, designed a system of food control (even selected Herbert Hoover as its director), determined on daylight saving (then revolutionary), discussed the draft, and in effect, revised the Government...
Granite-willed, softhearted, old (80) "Uncle Dan" Willard last week made good a ten-year threat. He resigned as $60,000-a-year President of B. & O., stepped up to a less active chairmanship, turned over the throttle to Western Union's Roy Barton White. Oldest R.R. president in the U.S., he had headed B. & 0. for 31 years, was the last link between the days of Harriman-Hill-Gould and the regulation-cramped ICC. But spry Uncle Dan hated to knock off. Said he: "I wish I were only 60 and could keep on. I love...
...another Senatorial term but was beaten for the nomination by Sheridan (Up-and) Downey. McAdoo was then 75. A lean, grey wheel horse of the Democratic Party, politically swaybacked, politically a pensioner, he retired to quieter pastures. Just to keep his hand in, he assumed the chairmanship of the American President Lines...
After 1938 net profits dropped to ?166,946-less than half those of two years before-Selfridge resigned his chairmanship, took the inactive, empty post of president. But 1939's statement (for year ended Jan. 31, 1940) was worse: net profits had dribbled to a mere ?21,093. Harry Selfridge, who had called Hitler a great patriot in 1937, could now blame him for part of his troubles, since retail sales have collapsed since the war. But as stockholders wandered into their 32nd Annual Ordinary General Meeting last week, they knew there were other reasons...
King Selfridge was not present to hear these recriminations (largely female). Since he resigned the chairmanship he has lived quietly in a Park Lane flat. He works eight hours a day on his private affairs, continues to write a biography of the 15th-century Florentine Merchant-Trader Cosimo de' Medici. The huge glass window of his former office on Oxford Street, cut with autographs of the great and near-great, has been shattered by a bomb...