Word: chairmanship
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...because it was chairman of the International Control Commission, which was charged with supervising a ceasefire in Viet Nam under the Geneva accord of 1954. India pointedly refrained from advising Washington of its decision in advance. The U.S., in turn, protested to India that its action could jeopardize its chairmanship of the commission. For the moment, both governments were clearly too angry to be interested in repairing the breach...
...paragraph in Thursday morning's issue of the Globe which attributed to Kilbridge a statement that "with the knowledge and consent of former President Nathan M. Pusey. (Kilbridge had) tried to 'wrest control' of the (Planning) Department from the three professors, who among them had held the chairmanship for 17 years, and to restore the authority of the Planning faculty as a whole...
...Gerstenberg has been a leading contender for the job. His main drawback was that his entire 39 year career at G.M. has been devoted to finance rather than to engineering or production, which many automen still regard as the drive shafts of the industry. But G.M. traditionally awards its chairmanship to the executive who seems best equipped to handle the problems immediately ahead. Gerstenberg's outstanding record of money management, and his articulateness in defending the auto industry against a growing number of critics, made him the choice. Thus "old Gerstenberg the bookkeeper," as he once described himself, beat...
Casey's fans dismiss the fact that he stepped into his job with little Wall Street experience. He was a heavy contributor to the Republican National Committee and a law partner of its former chairman, Leonard Hall, before the President picked him for the SEC chairmanship last winter. The appointment ran into trouble in the Senate Banking Committee, where Casey was grilled at length about his role in three civil lawsuits between 1962 and 1965, two of which involved securities. He was finally approved by the Senate in March...
...only three men--Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of City and Regional Planning; William W. Nash, Jr., '50, former professor of City and Regional Planning; and Francois C. Vigier, professor of City Planning and Urban Design--served as chairman of the Planning Department. Isaacs alone held the chairmanship for over ten years...