Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some $1,300,000,000 in currency out of mattresses, old teapots, chimney corners and safety deposit boxes was Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. For a fortnight Col. Knox had been busily creating what he named the Citizens' Reconstruction Organization to combat hoarding. Chairmen were appointed in all twelve Federal Reserve Bank districts. Each State and city was organized for a great educational drive commencing this week...
...required for the Democrats, after taking control of the House, to arrange their committee slate. Speaker Garner divided the plums according to the inviolate seniority rule. To the South went 27 committee chairmanships, to the North and West 20. New York and Texas could each boast of six committee chairmen...
...important committee chairmen were: Byrns of Tennessee, Appropriations: Collier of Mississippi, Ways and Means; Pou of North Carolina, Rules; Jones of Texas, Agriculture; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency: Sumners of Texas, Judiciary: Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Dickstein of New York, Immigration; Linthicum of Maryland, Foreign Affairs; Quin of Mississippi, Military Affairs; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; Black of New-York, Claims; Mead of New York, Post Offices...
...committee composed of an honorary chairman, two vice chairmen, a secretary, 52 honorary vice chairmen and 56 plain committeemen was formed last week to safeguard the Freedom of the Press. It was created under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and made public at a meeting of newsmen and Foundation leaders aboard the S. S. He de France in dock at Manhattan. By telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World...
Sirs: In your issue of June 29 there appear on p. 8 what purport to be reproductions of pictures of the Chairmen of the three different groups of railroads . . . Messrs H. A. Scandrett, J. J. Pelley and myself. It so happens that the picture which purports to represent me is one of my friend, Mr. A. C. Needles, President, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. I call your attention to this error not that I think it makes a great deal of difference, or that I think the American Public is particularly interested in my physiognomy, but because of what I understand...