Word: chairmanship
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...director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones lured the 1928 party convention to his city with a blank check. Good friend is he of Governor Ross Sterling, whose private finances he now manages. New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch declined appointment to R. F. C. after its chairmanship went to Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Meyer, its presidency to Charles Gates Dawes. All week long President Hoover kept prodding his R. F. C. forward into action. In its final enactment Congress made only three significant changes: 1) a limit of $100,000,000 on individual loans; 2) segregation...
...business meeting and smoker in the Faculty Club tonight the Harvard University Chapter of the Society of the Sigma XI, national scientific honor fraternity, will wind up its first year of activities. The semi-annual gathering of the organization, under the chairmanship of Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Astronomy and director of the Harvard College observatory, will commence at 8 o'clock...
...Ross Hartley, his onetime secretary, announced: 1) Mr. Dawes would serve as delegation chairman only through the preliminary weeks of the Geneva conference; 2) he would then resign as Ambassador to Great Britain; 3) back in Chicago as a private citizen he would resume the board chairmanship of his Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. The bank's stock jumped from 82 to 104 on the news...
...Last week Prisoner Mooney accepted honorary chairmanship of an "international workers' counter-Olympic meet" to be held at Chicago this year. Sponsored by the International Labor Defense, the meet is calculated to boycott the Los Angeles Olympics because Los Angeles is in California and California holds Mooney prisoner...
...lady, finally overwhelmed Cunard Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates with offers of money which, in some cases, was enclosed in the form of crisp Bank of England notes. For the Cunard Board of Directors there was but one British thing to do. They met under Sir Percy's chairmanship at Liverpool and voted to complete their ?6,000,000 ship on which ?1,000,000 has already been spent...