Word: chairmanship
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...Pierre Samuel du Pont, who was seated at the head of the long, oval, mahogany table, had resigned as chairman of the board. Granddaddy of the Du Pont clan, he had been with the company for almost 50 years, starting as a chemist, moving from the presidency to the chairmanship in 1919. He was ready to retire to his enormous hothouses at Longwood Gardens, where he plucks orchids and figs, to sit in the evening on his broad plaza and watch his $500,000 fountain swish and spurt in beams of many-colored light...
Eleanor Roosevelt accepted chairmanship of the committee to distribute the fund. Last week, Mrs. Fisher's Children's Crusade was on the march in 250,000 schools throughout the U. S., and in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every...
...Amadeo Peter Giannini has no use for the New Deal. Unlike most, he has no use for Wall Street either. His quarrel with Wall Street dates from 1931, when, in a famous proxy fight, he came out of retirement to oust Elisha Walker (now of Kuhn, Loeb) from the chairmanship of Transamerica Corp., which controls 495-branched Bank of America, fourth largest U. S. bank. His quarrel with the New Deal began in 1938. Late that year SEC, threatening to delist its stock, charged that Transamerica's registration statement contained "false and misleading statements." Old A. P., a born...
...Chairmanship appointments to the various undergraduate committees of Phillips Brooks House were announced yesterday by E. Langdon Burwell '41, its newly elected president. These chairmen will make up the P.B.H. Cabinet...
...chewing Senator Donahey took on only one Senate chore. After a squad of Senators had turned down the chairmanship of the TVA investigation, he took it, kept order with a Boy Scout knife which he used alternately as a toothpick, nail-clipper, and gavel...