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...Steel's board chairman and chief executive). New Finance Committee Chairman is William J. Filbert, a man who has spent his life mysteriously toiling over figures, taking no one into his confidence, but achieving legendary success. Of the comptroller of Steel since 1902, director since 1920, finance committeeman since 1922, the late Judge Gary once said: "I have known Filbert-I mean Mr. Filbert-for 35 years as intimately as anybody could know such a man, and I have never been able to find out what that J.* of the middle initial stands...
...humane and intelligent incumbent since her post was founded in 1913. But the first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed last week upon another Cabinet member. In a speech at Newburgh, N. Y., Second Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, 46, lawyer and Democratic National Committeeman from South Dakota, saluted his chief, James Aloysius Farley, as "the greatest Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin He predicted that "General" Farley will "rise much higher in political life...
...late Ralph Everett Ellinwood, whose father is counsel for Phelps Dodge Corp. Arizona mining interests. The Tucson Citizen is owned and managed by onetime (1909-13) Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock. Last year Publisher Hitchcock abruptly discontinued the Citizen's editorial page, recently resigned as Republican National Committeeman for Arizona. At Bisbee, Phelps Dodge copper mining centre, the Review and the Evening Ore are both controlled by Cochise Publishing Co., a Phelps Dodge subsidiary. At nearby Douglas-named for Dr. James Douglas, who discovered the Copper Queen mine and whose grandson is President Roosevelt's Budget Director Lewis...
...proctors. Its duty is to co-operate with the Graduate Secretary of the Union in managing Union activities. The names of men chosen for the 1937 Union Committee will be announced in the CRIMSON at an early date and complaints and suggestions can be made to one's dormitory committeeman or else to the Secretary of the Union whose office hours are always posted...
...Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration as a candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State's Attorney Thomas Courtney backed Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton, chief Cermak adviser, for the job. They compromised on Ed Kelly. As soon as the new Mayor was installed in City Hall, the old Sanitary District scandal was raked up and rehashed...