Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second recommendation authorizes the standing Faculty Committee to "... consult with the President concerning the appointment, possibly as a University Professor, of a distinguished scholar deeply concerned with Afro-American Studies and identified with the black American experience and community. The person appointed... should be invited to assume the Chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Committee...
...post by General Maxwell Taylor, Wheeler was assigned to give weekly briefings to John Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign. The one-time West Point mathematics instructor's presentations impressed Kennedy, and he was appointed Army Chief of Staff in 1962. When Taylor stepped down from the chairmanship two years yater, Wheeler took over. By law, he should have held the job for only two two-year terms, but Congress gave him an unprecedented extension requested by President Johnson...
This judgment, delivered at his desk-pounding best by Texas Democrat Wright Patman two weeks ago, was an expected but more than usually hyperbolic condemnation of William McChesney Martin. At each of his 18 yearly appearances before congressional committees, Martin has been routinely scourged for his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board, which Populist Patman blames for tight money and high interest rates. This year Patman has plenty of company. More critics than ever, ranging from academe to the new Administration, are taking aim at the nation's central bank...
Each recipient of an award will receive a grant covering his expenses and an honorarium of $600 "to compensate him for what he might otherwise have earned in a summer job." A four-member faculty selection committee under the chairmanship of John Clive, chairman of the History and Literature Department, will make the awards in mid-April. Three students, all members of the Institute's Student Advisory Committee, will serve as "consultants" to the faculty selection committee...
That was precisely the kind of grousing that Candidate Nixon wanted the nation to hear during the campaign, and he sometimes quoted Moynihan. When it was time for the President-elect to deliver something more effective, he decided to offer Moynihan the chairmanship of the new, Cabinet-level Council on Urban Affairs...