Word: chairmens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valiant try to crush the panic, Vice President Richard Nixon (who is indebted to Adams for having helped prevent the strong dump-Nixon move during the famed 1952 expense-account troubles that wound up in the Checkers speech) got up at a meeting of state Republican chairmen last week in Washington and warned: "The trouble with Republicans is that when they get into trouble they start acting like a bunch of cannibals." Still, the chairmen themselves were inclined to let Adams stew in the cauldron. Of the 42 attending the meeting, 13 thought that Adams ought to quit; twelve shakily...
...lower house, without whose presence no business can take place, holed up in his office for 11½ hours. When the secretary finally got to the chamber, only four minutes of the session were left-Next day the Socialists filibustered so successfully agains: the election of the committee chairmen-u procedure that usually takes 90 minutes-that by the stroke of midnight, only seven men had been named. On the third day the Socialists contested the election of Kishi himself. In the end, Kishi won what had been in the bag from the beginning. Then he rushed his new ministers...
...share of key Diet posts. With some justification, he accused the Socialists of using important committee chairmanships to sabotage legislation (they often did not show up for work, as a way of delaying action). Kishi, bent on responsible government under his own control, demanded that all 16 committee chairmen of the House of Representatives, and the Speaker and the Vice Speaker of the House as well, be members of his party...
...Congressman Vinson's reversal was practical recognition of increasing and impressive support for the reorganization plan. Before Vinson's committee last week came two respected military leaders who had learned of the difficulties and dangers of the present disjointed defense organization through their own experiences as chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...welcome all qualified undergraduates," state the chairmen of three large departments--English, History, and Government. These departments have no set policy for admitting undergraduates into "200" courses; the various instructors are free to decide. Qualification depends--in theory--on Rank List standing and prerequisites; in practice these are often a joke...