Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
Even before Coulter had been officially put on the payroll a month ago, he began patching up things in Peoria. First he put the company back in the local Association of Commerce. Next he walked down to the East Peoria yards and talked to the craft chairmen of the railroad brotherhoods. They had ended their six-year strike only a few days before. Under Coulter, they set to with a will to get the road operating. Engineers and firemen set ties and laid rails at trackmen's wages (80? an hour) until three flood-razed bridges were repaired...
Capitol Hill was buzzing last week with reports of a two-hour conference between Secretary of State George Marshall and two of the 80th Congress' toughest characters. They were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges and New York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
...printer has not yet been definitely selected for next year's volume, which will be the largest of 50 Albums published by the graduating classes. However, J. Anthony Lewis '48 and Richard A. Green '47, the co-chairmen, have asserted that the books will be in the hands of class members before next year's Commencement...
...Class Committees' vote gave a green light to the new Album's co-chairmen to work on phases of the book, which were held up pending action on the proposal...