Word: chairmanship
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...undergraduate meeting Friday afternoon under the chairmanship of Richard T. David '38, it was voted that petitions for further investigation in the affair be circulated. Garrett Birkhoff, instructor in Mathematics, presented the faculty viewpoint at the meeting which was held in the Leverett House Common Room...
Above all, he was a party loyalist. It was that quality, coupled with his own complete honesty and steely determination, that brought him through the ranks, first to the chairmanship of the key House Appropriations Committee, then to the Speakership. Arbitrary and cantankerous, piercing gray eyes flickering from a ruddy, chin-whiskered face, he might expectably have been hated by his colleagues. He was not. At the end of his first term as Speaker, Republicans and Democrats alike joined to give him a loving cup as a "mute token of our affection...
...comedown for Bush, who has served creditably as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for two years. "You do what the President asks you," he says. "And this is what he asked me to do." Bush has let it be known that he would have preferred something else; the chairmanship of the President's party usually has little power and less prestige. The man he replaces made no secret of the fact that he was being ousted from a job he wanted to keep for a while longer. But Kansas Senator Robert Dole had expressed himself too frequently...
...many Democrats, the big election did not take place on Nov. 7, when Richard Nixon faced George McGovern. They regarded the outcome as a foregone, forlorn conclusion. The dramatic confrontation came last week when Jean Westwood was challenged by Robert Strauss for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. At stake was not just a top party post but the shape the party will assume in the years ahead...
...also recommended that the chairmanship of the Department be rotated every three or four years. Ewart Guinier has served as chairman since the Department was founded in the Fall...