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...Assumption by Alfred Emanuel Smith of a coordinating chairmanship of all relief organizations in New York City ex cept Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's municipal committee, but including the emergency committee headed by Seward Prosser of potent Banker's Trust...
...more than $1,000,000 into the Jewish National Home. With quiet dignity he announced that Lord Passfield had "misled" him. He declared: "So complete was our confidence and faith in the British Government that millions of pounds were poured into Palestine." He resigned in protest his Chairmanship of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency...
...Congress: Seniority of service (23 years) has advanced him to the Republican chairmanship of the potent House Ways & Means Committee where all tax and tariff legislation originate. Though his position is outranked only by those of the Speaker, the Majority Floor Leader, the Chairman of the Rules Committee, he does not exercise an influence on the House equal to his high rank. In committee younger members like New Jersey's Bacharach supply the real driving force...
Long closely associated with his father in telephonic maneuvres has been Hunter Larrabee Gary. When the new company was formed last week it was announced that he will be its chairman. Other of his activities include a directorship on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, vice-chairmanship of Commerce Trust Co. of Kansas City (largest bank in loth Federal Reserve District). Deprived of eyesight for several years by an accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home...
Resigned. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, 1st Baron of Carmarthen, 67, Chairman of 40 steamship lines (including Royal Mail, White Star, Union Castle) and building companies, a bank, a railroad, an insurance company; from the chairmanship of Harland & Wolff. Ltd. (?12,000,000 Belfast shipbuilders). When shareholders commented on his multifarious activities and companies in March, he retorted: "I do not consider 40 as many...