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Last week's meeting at G. 0. P. Headquarters was heralded in advance as a "show down" on the chairmanship, though Mr. Huston had technically summoned it to discuss campaign plans. Those present included Vice Chairman Pomeroy, Treasurer Nutt, General Counsel Burke, Congressman Will Wood, chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee, two members of the Republican Executive Committee. They had no authority to oust the chairman, but were primed to force the issue...
Doors were shut and locked. Each man took an oath of secrecy. Before anybody else could mention it, Mr. Huston himself brought up the matter of the. chairmanship. He explained that it would be wise to postpone the whole question until after adjournment of the special Senate session, lest Democrats use that chamber as a forum to discuss Republican party affairs. He lulled his critics into such a peaceful mood, that not one of them dared demand his resignation. They were left under the impression?nothing more substantial? that he would probably get out later...
...great office of president. This endeavor is to be credited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The institute, which has had great presidents, has, in choosing a new president, Compton, asked the retiring president, Stratton, to become chairman of the executive committee and of the corporation. This chairmanship has its analogy in a method of the control of banks and other great corporations. The division of duties and of rights between these two offices has not yet been made; but all interested in college administration will follow with high anticipation this new method for adding efficiency and giving richer personal...
...Haven, Conn., May 15.--Professor George H. Nettleton has resigned the chairmanship of the Yale Board of Athletic Control, it was learned tonight. At the same time it was announced that Seldon Rose of the Class of 1909 at Yale had been elected to fill the vacancy. It has been known for some time that Professor Nettleton had contemplated resignation, since he is to be absent from the university next year in order to lecture at several universities in France...
...facts did not satisfy Senator Robinson. He tried to snare the Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced to abandon...