Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives.-The chairmen of the Congressional Committees-Indiana's Will R. Wood (Republican) and Arkansas's Will A. Oldfield (Democrat)-each predicted, as a matter of course, that their partisans throughout the land would win or retain enough seats to control the U. S. House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism...
...Class of 1932 for the first time in the history of Freshman class administration at Harvard will be presided over by its own representative body with a member of the Student Council at its head. At 7 o'clock next Tuesday this innovation will take effect when the chairmen and treasurers of the Dormitory Committees in the four Freshman Halls will meet in Claverly 53 to have their first discussion of Freshman affairs. W. R. Harper '30, the member of the Student Council who has been placed in charge of Freshman affairs, will preside...
...meeting of the Harvard Undergraduate Republican Club in the Faculty Room of the Harvard Union, last-night, Forrester Andrew Clark '29, of Boston, was elected chairman. Four sub-chairmen will head various committees to assist Clark in organizing the Republican campaign among Harvard Undergraduates...
...work of the House is carried on by the Phillips Brooks House Association and is entirely in the hands of students. A cabinet, headed by an undergraduate president and made up of the chairmen of the various committees among which the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association is divided, determines the policies and practices of the organization. The Association is made up of the students who are participating in its work, and participation is the only requisite for membership. A graduate secretary lends his efforts and advice to the work and to the cabinet. That is, in brief...
...Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...