Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subordinates, this trio last week worked to spread a long-standing unsubstantiated rumor designed to humiliate new House Speaker Thomas Foley. Just as Foley was poised to take the gavel from departing Speaker Jim Wright's hand, a memo from the Republican National Committee was circulating to state party chairmen and G.O.P. Congressmen. Titled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet," the memo compared his voting record with that of Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an acknowledged homosexual. For days, an aide to Republican minority whip Newt Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters trying...
...clear his name. When the council refused to grant him these conditions, MacDonald vowed that he would not vacate his elective position after all. The council then voted to place MacDonald on indefinite leave, with pay. The Navajos had never before questioned the conduct of one of their chairmen, assuming each had only the best interests of his followers in mind...
...this fall The Crimson ran a small box on its front page announcing that after 115 years. The Crimson would now employ gender neutral terminology. Chairmen would now be referred to as chairs, and spokesmen would be spokespersons...
First marshals--who serve as co-chairmen of the Class Committee--coordinate fund-raising and plan senior activities with Harvard and Radcliffe's alumni associations. After Commencement, marshals are expected to organize reunions and other events for their class...
...Only 31 percent of the recently elected Undergraduate Council representatives are women. Last semester only one of the committee chairmen was a woman and none of the council's executive officers...