Word: chairmanship
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...phrasemaking Brother Charles who named the Fair "A Century of Progress" and who, when Samuel Insull bogged down, took over the finance chairmanship. But soon after he got back from Ambassadoring in London he had Reconstruction Finance Corp. to run, and after that a run on his bank to stop, and after that a new bank to build. So Brother Rufus has really done most of the work from all angles. He has not permitted money to be spent until it was in hand, has never let the Fair's bank balance fall below $1,000,000. As they...
Last March in Brooklyn, the Federal Council of Churches* held a conference on Wills & Will-Making. International Secretary Francis Stuart Harmon of the Y. M. C. A. sloganed: "Where there's a Will, there's a way." Under the chairmanship of Dr. Alfred Williams Anthony, the findings were published, titled ''More and Better Wills." It was reported that 70% of estates administered in court are will-less. Churchmen and charity workers were urged, "guided by good taste and feeling," to make calls, write letters, get publicity, form committees, talk by radio on will-making, with...
Newcomb Carlton, 64, president of Western Union Telegraph Co. was last week reported about to retire to the chairmanship, to be succeeded as president by Roy Barton White, president of Central Railroad of New Jersey...
...January 1933 he, aged 68, accepted the chairmanship of the national advisory board of the Crusaders (Wets) saying: "The nation vitally needs the political weight of the serious-purposed, educated, patriotic youth of the country...
...Irving Bush, who was kicked upstairs to an impotent chairmanship last spring, it was an important industrial war. To John A. Stephens, able young (37) president of the company, and most of his directors, Irving Bush was shadowboxing. They waged no proxy campaign, they loosed no blasts of publicity. Fact was they thought the whole thing bordered on the fantastic...