Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else but Roger Blough, U.S. Steel's board chairman, who is battling for all of us in the fight against inflation...
Against the background of swollen costs and intensifying foreign competition, the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Roger Blough, decided to take a stand on two propositions in this year's contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers: 1) increases in wages and fringe benefits must be noninflationary; and 2) collective bargaining must become a "two-way street," with the union yielding management a freer hand in control of plant operations...
...Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal and, in the judgment of many, a fighting liberal." But Harry Truman's own favorite, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, was unequivocally presented...
...against the dollar and for prosperous Europe to do its bit elsewhere. The U.S., having donated or lent $75.8 billion to foreign countries since 1945, could not bear the burden alone, nor could any single nation. ¶ Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, onetime ambassador to Washington, and now chairman of Lloyds Bank, coined a vivid, if not quite precise, name for the new need. Instead of a familiar East-West crisis, he talked of a North-South axis, proposed that the world's industrial "north" form a committee, with the U.S. as full partner, to coordinate and share...
...knew he wouldn't be Eliot's choice for a successor, but then he knew as well that Eliot wasn't doing the choosing. In fact, the chairman of the selection committee asked to consider 24 possible names later reported, "It took about one look at the list to make it clear that the only real candidate was A. Lawrence Lowell." A scant two weeks later, Lowell's election had been confirmed by both the Corporation and the Overseers...