Word: chairmanships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the changes came. American's directors filled the board chairmanship which had been unoccupied for 20 years, by moving 72-year-old President Vincent Riggio into it. Into his place they boosted Vice President Paul M. Hahn, 55, a protege of American's late, fabled George Washington Hill, whose brassy salesmanship and irritating radio commercials had put Luckies on top in the first place...
...central point in the accusations was Shapley's chairmanship of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace that met in New York last Spring. The attackers said this group, with its delegates from Eastern Europe, was a front for Communism...
Dorgan referred especially to Shapley's chairmanship of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace that met in New York last spring. This was more of a "Soviet Communist" meeting, he declared...
...committee filibuster against a liberalized bill to admit D.P.s to the U.S., and almost succeeded -with McKellar-in mutilating the Marshall Plan last summer. To control or retaliate against Senators who stand up against him, the silver-haired spokesman of the silver bloc swings a big club: chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, which passes on all claims against the Government and judiciary patronage...
Elmer Thomas, Democrat from Oklahoma, 73, who votes pro-labor often enough to win labor's support at elections, but owes much of his backing to oil and private utilities. Two years ago he was exposed for trading in the cotton commodities market-through his wife -during his chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Thomas made himself look silly and embarrassed his country on a tour of western Europe last year by complaining loudly that the Swedish government had not entertained him richly enough...