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...Chairman George Vardaman of the general education division of Denver University's College of Business announced that he had a new sort of champion among his students: George Murch. who may well be the world's fastest reader. Murch's normal pace: 5,000 words a minute. Top speed: 8,000 words (or Gone With the Wind in an hour). The average reader's speed: 250 words a minute...
...member J. K. ("The Commodore") Vardaman, Truman's onetime St. Louis crony, took Transamerica's side. So did Oliver S. Powell, ex-officer of Minnesota's Federal Reserve Bank. Powell argued that the board had failed to establish a yardstick for the measurement of monopoly, and certainly had not proved that Transamerica threatened the independence of competitors. Two other members, who joined the FRB after the hearings began,*disqualified themselves. Chairman William McChesney Martin and Member M. S. Szymczak voted against Transamerica. The 2-to-2 tie was broken by Rudolph M. Evans, who conducted the hearings...
ALABAMA-14. Taft has eight or ten. State Chairman Claude O. Vardaman, who leans toward Eisenhower, may control from two to six votes...
Diligent Man. As his career waxed, the up-&-coming lawyer began to take an interest in the St. Louis Symphony Society, thus met James K. Vardaman, an old friend of Politician Harry Truman. When "Jake" Vardaman went into the Navy, he left the legal end of his business in Clifford's hands. The Vardaman Shoe Co. was being liquidated. Clifford tied up the loose ends...
...Clifford also joined the Navy as a lieutenant (j.g.)-Sent to make a survey of the Pacific Coast supply situation, he won a citation for "diligence." Vardaman meanwhile had become Harry Truman's naval aide. And when Jake went off to Potsdam with Harry Truman in 1945, he summoned Clifford to man the White House station while he was gone. After Vardaman was made a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Clifford stayed on. He began helping Judge Sam Rosenman to write speeches, and when Rosenman left, the President gave Clifford a full-time...