Word: chairmanship
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...rumored in Washington that when Albert D. Lasker retires from the Chairmanship of the United States Shipping Board, as he plans to do in the next few weeks, he will go into the newspaper business. It is said he will buy up a number of papers and become, in journalistic importance although not in type, another Munsey, Hearst or Scripps. Be that as it may, his departure from the Shipping Board is expected to mark the passing of the leading member of what is more or less openly called the President's Kitchen Cabinet...
...prospects of tax reductions are remote. The day following the Cabinet meeting Senators Watson and Smoot, heir-presumptive to the chairmanship of the Finance Committee, called at the White House. They oppose any attempt to alter the present tax law at the next session of Congress. Senator Smoot expressed his sympathy with the President's suggestion, but regarded it as " premature." The anxiety of the two Senators is obviously due to the political unwisdom of such a move. If any tax measure is brought up in Congress, it would fall among "radicals," as pointed out in TIME last week...
...angle was put on the investigations into the sudden rise in the price of sugar from seven to ten cents by charges of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah against sugar refiners. Senator Smoot's attitude bears weight because he is next in line by seniority right for the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee?the committee which passes on tariff measures. What is more, he comes from Utah, one of the four leading beet sugar producing states. These states (Colorado, Utah, Michigan and California) produce over 70% of native beet sugar...
...international affairs; during the course of his ten years' devotion to foreign affairs every man would become an expert. The Jefferson Day dinner, designated by tradition as the official gathering of National Democratic leaders, will take place at the Astor Hotel, Manhattan, on April 14 under the chairmanship of James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany. The list of speakers includes Governor Parker of Louisiana, Governor Smith of New York, Governor Silzer of New Jersey and Royal S. Copeland, junior United States Senator from New York. The return to the United States of John T. Adams, of Iowa, Chairman...
...which sprang the conception, his was the hand that laid the foundation of the splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout the world." So said Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera House Board of Directors, in announcing that Vice President Coolidge had accepted the chairmanship of the Jonas Chickering Centennial Celebration. Among others joining in the nation-wide move to pay tribute to the father of the American pianoforte are David Belasco, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, William Cardinal O'Connell, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Kreisler...