Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Junior competitors who make the Album will have a chance to become chairmen of their respective boards during their Senior year, and are eligible for the position of Album Chairman, highest office on the yearbook...
...jawed John McCormack of Massachusetts, the majority leader, and round-shouldered, wavy-haired Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the whip-had done all they could. They had made frantic telephone calls to Democratic leaders in more than a dozen States, begging for additional pressure on reluctant members. Some Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms for another 18 months stood an imposing phalanx of opponents. They...
Nevertheless, such critics were bound to remember and throw back at Mr. Stimson one passage in his letter (to Military Affairs Committee Chairmen) explaining last week's compromise. Said the Secretary of War: "The successful conduct of war depends directly on the controlled and coordinated application of all types of military power against vital objectives. This requires unity of command...
...deadline was set by a conference of union executives and plant chairmen after hearing a report from their negotiation committee on nine days of conferences in Washington with company officials and a panel of the defense mediation board...
...story is just leaking out, after weeks of mystery, how the dance was all set to go through, until these two saboteurs put their personal desires above any wish to give the whole College the sort of dance it wanted and announced to the assembled chairmen that they would have nothing to do with such a plan and would go ahead with their own dances...