Word: chairmens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to Peking, the Communist chairmen of South China's Kwangsi and Kwangtung provinces told of heavy Nationalist guerrilla activity, depression and unemployment in cities, peasant resistance to rice-tax collection. Last spring, they said, rumors of a Nationalist comeback, of a Japanese "invasion" of Manchuria and a U.S. "invasion" of Shanghai excited mobs to massacre 105 commissars in two counties alone...
...Cedar Hill delegates are member officers of the Student Government, class representatives, dormitory presidents and work chairmen, committee chairmen and club presidents. President Jordan and Deans Sherman and Kirby-Miller, Small and Marshall also attended the conference...
Armed Services Chairmen Tydings (in the Senate) and Vinson (in the House) moved with even greater dispatch. Before the week was out they had slammed through their committees and presented to the Congress two major military bills: one to take the 2,006,000 ceiling off military manpower, the other (immediately passed by the Senate) to extend all enlistments for a period of one year beyond present expiration dates...
...chairmen, Texas' hard-fisted Jesse Jones and pince-nezed Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, seemed to think the agency was out of date. Jones had recommended "a decent burial" for RFC. Last week Eugene Meyer's Post added pointedly: "The time has come to abolish the agency, or at least put it on an inactive standby basis to be revived only if an emergency arises...
...Killed three more (making a total of five) of 21 presidential reorganization plans which otherwise would have automatically become law on May 24. The measures: to increase the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture by bringing agencies in his department more closely under his control; to make the chairmen of the Interstate Commerce and the Federal Communications Commissions directly responsible for the commissions' activities...