Word: chairmen
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John Richardson '08 of Boston and George E. Hale of Chicago were named national vice chairmen to succeed R. Ammi Cutter '22, who has been appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Richardson will handle gifts from graduates of classes prior to 1926, and Hale will handle donations from later classes...
Many businessmen came to like good old Dave. To honor Beck's election as the Teamsters' president, more than 600 Seattle business leaders gathered in the Olympic Hotel in December 1952. Co-chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
Louise Weiss was chosen commencement chairman; Margaret R. Antonelli, baccalaureate chairman; Faith D. B. Heward and Lee Ginsher, class night co-chairmen; Carolyn Briggs, class agent; and Marcia McCuaig Geer, class secretary...
...making positions inspired Democratic cries of "patronage raid," the major point against the change does not involve the spoils system. Eisenhower, who has a fairly clean hound's tooth in patronage matters, appears to have been acting more under obligation to the Hoover Commission than to the GOP state chairmen...
...fire and casualty risks, it paid out some 61% of its premiums in claims, up to 35% in agents' commissions, 15% in management expenses to Cage, who also enjoyed a reported $40,000 salary and a lavish expense account. Living high, Cage took former Texas Insurance Commission Chairmen Garland A. Smith and J. Byron Saunders on free junkets to Havana and Las Vegas in his private plane...