Word: chairmanships
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Died. Harry Pollitt. 69, a founder of the British Communist Party in 1920, who served as its general secretary from 1929 (except for a two-year downgrading following the 1939 Russo-German pact) until 1956, when, as a Stalinist, he was kicked upstairs to the party chairmanship; of a stroke; at sea off Australia...
...Hofland, 59, marketing, personnel and Western Europe; and Loudon. Three are British: John Philip Berkin, 53, the oil coordinator; Harold ("Tim") Wilkinson. 57, in charge of North America. Far East, Australasia and United Kingdom-Eire; and Frederick Stephens, 56, legal matters and the Middle East, who takes over the chairmanship when Loudon is absent. Shellmen agree that their Britons incline more to flair and intuition, their Dutchmen to patience and stolidity. Loudon presides over the mix. If he favors a project, it is likely to go through; if he frowns on it, its chances are poor. Says he: "There...
...Northern anguish, has killed at least one worthy bill and made Powell the most unpopular man in Congress. With the retirement of North Carolina's Graham Barden at the end of the present session, Powell, thanks to the sacredness of seniority, has a legitimate claim on the chairmanship of the House Committee on Education and Labor next January...
Republican Doerfer, a longtime Wisconsin politician and bureaucrat, and a protégé of Senator Alexander Wiley and ex-Governor Walter Kohler, went to Washington in 1953 as a member of the FCC, was elevated to the chairmanship...
...Southern members of the House are in a dilemma about blocking Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell from a committee chairmanship because they don't want...