Word: chairmanship
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...western Peanut Shellers' Association. In the mighty realm of rolling mills and blast furnaces is the American Iron & Steel Institute. To head this trade group Rob ert Patterson Lament last week resigned as U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Presi dent Charles Michael Schwab will retire to an inactive chairmanship...
...repayment negotiated by that body with the Allies. When the House went Democratic last December, he found himself second only to Chairman Collier of Mississippi on the Ways & Means Committee. When Chairman Collier fell ill and withdrew to recover, Mr. Crisp stepped into the committee's acting chairmanship at a most difficult time. Taxes had to be raised to balance the Budget. Upon him fell the unpopular responsibility of drafting a billion-dollar revenue bill and pushing it through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction...
Last week President Hoover completed reorganization of Reconstruction Finance Corp. under the terms of the new Relief Act. Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve was dropped from the R. F. C. chairmanship. To succeed him the President was determined to appoint a Democrat, thus making a majority of the R. F. C. board members of that party.* By turning R. F. C. control, at least nominally, over to his political opponents, the President hoped to silence campaign talk that the corporation was being used for partisan purposes...
...pulled down last winter when Boston's Federal National Bank toppled. He is prominent in Catholic and Knights of Columbus affairs. But his chief interest is fish, the men and machines which process them, the men and vessels which bring them in. There is a Pew in the chairmanship of the company, a Gorton on the board, but Gorton-Pew's man at-the-wheel is its president and general manager...
...John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton University, accepted chairmanship of the Motion Picture Research Council...