Word: chairmanship
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...Delegate Joseph Gordon Coates a similar blast was momentarily expected. But with the entire Conference in a state of preparatory flux the Mother Country quietly managed to keep her end up. She wangled her Secretary for War, Viscount Hailsham (famed when he was Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg), into chairmanship of the Conference's first and most important working group: the Committee on Empire Trade Promotion...
...election of William Averell Harri man to chairmanship of the system his father built was foreshadowed a year ago when he became chairman of the executive committee of Illinois Central (25% U. P. controlled), marking his first major entrance into railroads. Son Harriman. who was 1 8 when his father died in 1909, has exhibited diligence and ambition as a businessman but has yet made no great name for himself. His financial backing has come largely from his mother. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, who describes herself in Who's Who as "sole heir upon death of husband to estate...
Joseph Wright Harriman, founder-president of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., nephew of the late Railroader Edward Henry Harriman, retired to the board chairmanship in favor of Henry Elliott Cooper, formerly one of Chase National Bank's 74 vice presidents and a onetime member of John Davison Rockefeller's personal staff. Harriman National was founded as Night & Day Bank (open continuously), changed its name in 1911, still remains open for business from...
Shouse v. Walsh, The first fight scheduled for the convention was on the permanent chairmanship. Originally picked to preside was Jouett Shouse, able chief at the Washington headquarters. Roosevelt supporters had agreed to his election and the Governor was supposed to have sanctioned him. Then it was announced that Governor Roosevelt's man for the chair was Montana's grey-grim Senator Walsh. Mr. Shouse had been ditched, it was explained, because he did not favor the Roosevelt candidacy. Quickly the anti-Roosevelt battalions rallied to Mr. Shouse's support, charging that Governor Roosevelt was guilty of bad faith...
...Monday the Loop was once more quiet. But behind closed doors there was great todo. Central figure in a long bankers' conference was Charles Gates Dawes, lately resigned from Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s presidency to assume the chairmanship of his Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. Since his return to Chicago during the Republican Convention, speculation had run high as to why he had resigned from R. F. C. at what seemed like the peak of the corporation's activities...