Word: chairmanship
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...competition for positions on the Editorial Board under the Chairmanship of D. G. Anderson '35 was especially keen, attracting 40 candidates. A sub-Chairman, the high standing man in each contest, will be announced at a meeting of the entire Red Book Board in the near future...
...After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship...
...chairman is often spokesman for his board. Typical of a chairman who uses his position as a rostrum is voluble Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Examples of well-known chairmen who have retired into the position are Charles Sumner Woolworth, 75, and Henry Holiday Timken. 64. Some chairmanships are frankly nominal. Such is James Anson Campbell's position as "chairman emeritus" of Youngstown Sheet & Tube and George O. Knapp's as "honorary chairman" of Union Carbide. Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr. is "honorary board chairman" of General Electric while the real chairmanship is held by active Owen D. Young...
...other corporations does the chairmanship carry real weight and executive power. American Telephone & Telegraph, The Texas Corp. and many another large company has no chairman, the president presiding at directors' meetings. When Ford Motor Co.'s three directors meet, President Edsel Bryant Ford pre sides over his father and one Peter E. Martin...
...most important chairmanship held by John Pierpont Morgan is symbolized by the chair at the head of the partners' table in his firm's dining room where he and his 20 partners lunch every day. discuss the world's affairs. His next most important chair has for five years been the one around on Broadway at the head of the directors' table of United States Steel Corp. Mr. Morgan assumed that position in 1927 upon Judge Gary's death at the urgent request of his good friend the late George Fisher Baker. It was understood that his duties were...