Word: chairmens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, 57, followed the traditional path of victorious presidential campaign chairmen to the Postmaster General's chair, there largely abandoned politics to supervise sweeping Post Office reforms. To the public, modernization shows up in such improvements as red, white and blue mailboxes and trucks and trim new uniforms. To business experts it shows up more impressively in such innovations as administrative streamlining and cost accounting. Return ing for a new term. Summerfield must tackle a task he has failed at before: convincing Congress that rates should be upped (present thinking: 5? for all first-class mail...
...back, there was none over his eyes. Last week he opened the two-hour organizational meeting by sagely announcing that "we need some new rules," proceeded to introduce eleven of his own, patently copied from the widely circulated Udall proposals. Though the chairman kept the privilege of appointing subcommittee chairmen and hiring and firing Democratic staff employees, he retained no other power, even agreed to demands that the committee have equal voice in deciding when additional subcommittees be appointed. Strolling out of the committee room at meeting's end. black-haired, crew-cut Stewart Udall seemed satisfied with...
...With all this emphasis on brains and balance, the competition to get into college sometimes becomes a desperate affair. Dean Robert Pitt of the University of Pennsylvania says that in one year he received phone calls or letters from ten governors, as many Congressmen, and a host of board chairmen, all interested in pushing candidates. He has also been offered bribes ("O.K., how much do you want?" demanded one father as he whipped out his checkbook), has seen another father offer the university $3,000 if only it would take his son in. In Washington, D.C., the wife...
...naming of three new department chairmen was announced among other appointment by President Pusey...
...chairmen of both major national party committees, Republican Leonard Hall and Democrat Paul M. Butler, found themselves in a state of rare agreement. Butler told a special House committee studying lobbying and campaign activities that televiewers were bored sick by the torrent of campaign oratory that flooded their TV screens this year. Appearing before the same sitting solons two days later, Chairman Hall allowed: "You can saturate television with too much politics." Hall cited his proof-a welcome harbinger of less saturation in campaigns to come: political broadcasts win "very very low" audience ratings unless the speakers are candidates...