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Fred A. Powdrell resigned as vice president and treasurer of Montgomery Ward & Co. to devote all his time to McLellan Stores Co, of which he is executive committee chairman. This change follows the election of Sewell Lee Avery to the company's board chairmanship. When Mr. Powdrell assumed his position in Montgomery Ward last year it was thought that he had been selected by J. P. Morgan...
Harley Lyman Clarke, utility-cinema tycoon, and Edward Richmond Tinker, banker, last week indulged in polite remarks about each other. Mr. Clarke was retiring from the presidency to the chairmanship of Fox Film Corp. His post is being filled by Mr. Tinker. Said Mr. Clarke: "I have been hoping for some time that Mr. Tinker would undertake this responsibility, and I am delighted. . . ." Said Mr. Tinker: ". . . Mr. Clarke and I have been friends for many years ... I am looking forward to the renewal of pleasant relationships with old friends and associates...
...chair which rotates but does not swivel is the board chairmanship of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Foundation's work is handled by its president, who since June 1930, some four years after he was politically ousted from the University of Washington, has been energetic Dr. Henry Suzzallo (TIME, June 3, 1930). He it is who runs the Foundation's educational surveys, which have been made public in 52 fat brochures (in preparation are studies of the relations of higher and secondary education in Pennsylvania and California). The board chairmanship, a purely honorary post...
...jeers members of the Cabinet clustered round resigned President Alcala Zamora, arguing, pleading, coaxing him to reconsider. Alcala Zamora refused to budge so long as the insult to his honor stood. For 63 minutes Spain was without a President. Finally Insultor Jiminez was persuaded to resign his committee chairmanship. Mollified, Senor Alcala Zamora withdrew his Presidential resignation, gingerly sat down on the Government bench again...
...better the condition of their colleges, 45 presidents met in January 1930, and labeled themselves the Liberal Arts College Movement. Direction of the movement was later given to a committee of 15 under the chairmanship of President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College. After compiling the above figures, he said: "There seems to be something unfair about the distribution of college opportunities. We need the great colleges and the great universities. . . . But at the same time ample provision should be made for all institutions which are called upon to bear their share in providing a liberal higher education...