Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the fortunate ten have been elected to the Smoker and Jubilee committees by their classmates, the Union Committee will assign them positions. Chairmen are empowered to appoint extra men to their committees under the rulings adopted last year when '43 voted down annual elections of officers...
Tightening their belts for several years of declining enrollment and low interest rates, the chairmen of all departments in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are paring down their budgets 10 per cent for next year, John W. Lowes, financial vice-president of the University, revealed yesterday...
...speed in the last World War." The reasons, according to Murray and according to the 1918 National War Labor Board: "[Bethlehem's] treatment of its employes was so severe . . . that strikes broke out." It took an indignant letter from William Howard Taft and Frank P. Walsh, then joint chairmen of the board, to bring Bethlehem around...
...power. If he drives a hard bargain, as he did last week over Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co., it's in the interest of the Government-which is supposedly all the people. He is tough, shrewd, tricky as ever. And the list of Jones-directors, Jones-managers, Jones-chairmen, Jones-presidents grows & grows. All this he is forgiven, because the men he picks make good, i.e., make profits. He tests every problem with his same old rabbit's foot touchstone; the million questions he has faced are always the same question: Is it a good risk...
...letter, signed by all of the officers, counsellors, and committee chairmen of the group, advocates drastic action, "if this country is to equip itself adequately, and at the same time bring prompt and effective aid to those who are bearing the shock of aggression...