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...month after the disaster in 1923, $7,750,000 for Chinese famine sufferers in 1920-21. But that was back in good times. This year, two Red Cross campaigns for China have fizzled like dead Chinese firecrackers. Nine months ago was set up the National Emergency Committee, under the chairmanship of Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath (Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood), with the aim of raising enough money so that the 13 colleges might continue. Last week, as the aim became a reality and plans for a second drive ($330,000) were announced, Chinese Ambassador C. T. Wang wired the Committee: THIS...
...keeps her ears and eyes open. Since 1923 she has been a member from the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. At the outbreak of the two-year-old war in Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes against Mr. Chamberlain as an Independent Conservative. In the last year she has bustled down to Leftist...
...year beok was published this year for the first time in the history of the School under the chairmanship of Charles W. Steadman...
...Chairmanship of this group went to 31-year-old William McChesney Martin Jr. Last week Paul Shields landed a berth as head of the important public relations committee. Next job ahead of the new management is the selection of the first paid president in the Exchange's history. Meanwhile Chairman Martin will fill the job. Last week, chaperoned by Bill Douglas, he bustled off to Washington, to get Franklin Roosevelt's benediction...
...Keep Democratic!" Within the first few months of his FCC chairmanship, Mr. McNinch served notice on lobbyists that their visits and pleadings to Commissioners would receive the fullest publicity. He brought the Commission up to date on its hearings, eliminated departmental divisions, which caused the dismissal of a friend of Jim Farley, a relative of Justice Black and the nephew of Sam Rayburn. The little man, it was agreed, had lots of political nerve...