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Significance. Lindsay Warren's stature and influence in Congress are not measured by his one House chairmanship, that of the obscure Accounts Committee (which looks after what the House spends on itself). No one has attempted to oppose Warren in a Democratic primary since he won his seat in 1924. In only four of his eight elections have Republicans bothered to nominate a candidate against him. Patronage is therefore unimportant to him. He has not pressed for places on important committees. He turned down the $15,000, 14-year job of Comptroller General. In 1936 he declined to contest...
...division of History, Government, and Economics, under the chairmanship of Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, shows an increase of 40 over March of last year. Every one of the fields in this grouping records a substantial increase over the figures for the Class of '41. History, with a rise from 82 to 103, shows the largest gain of any field. Government has 12 more concentrators, going from...
...Rooves and his orchestra will furnish the music at the dance which will last from 9 until 2 o'clock and is under the chairmanship of Roland E. Woodbury...
According to a report made public yesterday, Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, has accepted the Chairmanship of the Committee of Americans a non-partisan organization recently founded for the purpose of restoring old fashioned integrity in public affairs...
Last week, not General Wood, but wan, diffident Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald resigned. At 47 he retired to his philanthropies and etchings. Sears' directors promptly upped General Wood to the chairmanship, a post to which the retirement rule does not apply...