Word: chairmanship
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...enter the Senate without an undignified and unseemly contest. Then, too it is probable that most ex-Presi-dents would shrink from membership in the. Senate. An ex-Presi-dent would enter the Senate a tyro, like any other new member unfamiliar with Senate rules, without an important committee chairmanship, less ready in debate probably than the practiced old members. From being the most important figure in Washington he would become a mere member of the Senate, of whom there are 96, and almost surely for several years one of the less important members...
...Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert H, Gary's chairmanship in U. S. Steel. Bankers closely connected with Judge Gary, now in poor health, denied those reports...
President A. Lawrence Lowell has formally accepted the chairmanship of the Board of Judges who are to determine the winner of the interscholastic essay contest conducted every year by the Brooks-Bryce Foundation of New York City, among students of secondary schools...
John J. Mitchell, 73, potent Chicago banker, last week gave over the presidency of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to Eugene M. Stevens, previously vice president; himself shifted to the chairmanship of the board of directors. For 43 years (1880-1923) he had been president of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, where he had started as a messenger. When in 1923 it became the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. he kept on as president...
...freshman year he captured a prize for an English essay and was one of the first members of his class to have poetry published in the Lit (undergraduate literary monthly). Another Pennsylvanian, one Lloyd H. Smith, was chosen for the highest office on the News-the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide the News' finances* in 1928: one Joseph E. Lowes Jr. and Robert Patterson Jr. who is the grandson of the late John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register...