Word: chairmanships
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Senator George, who moved from Foreign Relations to the chairmanship of Finance, knows the power of money. He knows that more than $200,000,000 worth of gold, sneaked out of France at the collapse, is stowed away in Fort Desaix at Fort-de-France...
...June 30) and the appointment of Jimmy Byrnes to the Supreme Court, the Senate's Democratic Steering Committee did a neat shuffle, came up with one of the strongest Administration teams the Senate has seen in years. Main purpose of the shuffle was to keep the Finance Committee chairmanship from falling into the isolationist hands of Massachusetts' David Ignatius Walsh, Naval Affairs' chairmanship into the anti-New Deal hands of Maryland's Millard Tydings, keep Administration...
...brain-child of Utah's Senator Reed Smoot, a Mormon Apostle, and of Oregon's Willis Chatman Hawley, a slow-witted, powerful man, once a champion woodcutter in Oregon, who had risen from the post of principal of Umpqua Academy at Wilbur, Ore. to the chairmanship of the House Ways & Means Committee...
...Jones friend and a Jones man, Schram was fast becoming also a Jones rival. At first, like other Jones men, he remained anonymous. He never held his own press conference, never sent out his own press releases. Even after the President gave him the RFC chairmanship (which Jesse wanted to keep in his own collection of titles), Jones was still his boss. Schram's thwarted feeling probably mounted during the Bolivian tin negotiations, which Jesse handled in such a way that Bolivian tin is still not being commercially smelted...
...Frank William Lovejoy (who started as superintendent of the film department in 1897) was elected president; William G. Stuber ( hired as a film emulsion expert in 1894) shifted from presidency to chairmanship of the board. Last week Lovejoy, 69, moved on to the board chairmanship; for Stuber, 77, the directors created the new post of honorary chairman...