Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also, as Speaker of the House, he was keenly aware that Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee was the traditionally unchallenged source of all revenue bills. Like all House Speakers, Martin was deeply conscious that his very authority depended on parliamentary precedent and the power of his committee chairmen. He could have ducked the whole EPT issue. But in recent months Joe Martin has discovered a higher loyalty to Dwight Eisenhower, and in that loyalty has developed a sense of leadership which his colleagues had never seen in him before...
...drive for "emergency funds" for completion of an indoor hockey rink here will seek some $327,000 by July 1, according to chairmen of a committee handling the campaign...
...Cabinet, composed of officers and committee chairmen, indicated that it might follow the alternative suggested to it by Sperry to deal directly with the Corporation if it was dissatisfied with the Committee's choice...
...same time yesterday the PBH Cabinet, composed of the House's undergraduate officers and committee chairmen, learned that the committee had denied its request to place additional men under consideration...
After the council's announcement, the protests grew even louder. F. Champion Ward, dean of the college and a staunch defender of the Hutchins degree, sent in his resignation (Kimpton turned it down). All nine members of the faculty policy committee, as well as the chairmen of eleven departments, begged the chancellor to reconsider the council's action, "taken after . . . consideration too brief for so grave a matter." The heads of all student organizations also protested, then summoned a student rally. All in all, it was like old times at Chicago-but with the revolution going the other...