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...statement written by some word fellow, which he tried to get somebody else to read. No one else moved, so the mayor read it himself in a grating voice. He had not wanted to take over the chairmanship in the first place. He had only taken it over after Pat Nash died in 1943 because of the great emergency. Now he had decided he didn't have time to be mayor and chairman both...
...appointed anyhow, and meetings were held at his bedside. Jap guards surrounded his house. He received checks which he did not cash. The newspapers announced his membership on puppet commissions before Roxas had heard of them. He resisted attempts to take him to Tokyo, but he did accept the chairmanship of a Laurel food-gathering commission-on the condition that "the Japanese do not get one grain of rice." And he helped write the puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion of collaboration upon him. What critics did not know was that the constitution read almost word...
Silver-haired Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch was visibly proud of his role. As U.N. Secretary Trygve Lie handed over the temporary chairmanship of U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission, Baruch prefaced his proposals with a touching passage: "I was moved," he said, "in the afternoon - shall I say, in the late afternoon - of my life, to add my effort to gain the world's quest, by the broad mandate under which we were created" (the January resolution of the U.N.'s General Assembly passed in London). He said: "All of us are consecrated to making...
...quiet shuffle of topside organization, the job of directing General Motors Corp. moved west last week from New York to Detroit. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. stepped down as G.M.'s chief executive officer (but held onto his board chairmanship). President Charles Erwin Wilson stepped up, will now run G.M. from Detroit with the help of a new operations policy committee...
Innovations in procedure voted by the Lowell House Committee Monday provide for annual re-election of committee members, chairmanship tenure of one year, and a fixed number of members on the committee. A written House constitution which may be adopted next fall would include these provisions plus two proposals now under discussion: a referendum and alterations in the nominating process...