Word: chairwoman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a series of four meetings scheduled for today and tomorrow, discussion at the New England regional convention will center around the NSO constitution draft prepared by the staff and executive committee of the NSO," Miss Miriam Haskell, Smith '47, and temporary regional chairwoman, asserted last night...
...manufacture an incendiary bomb that will instantly burn up anything it hits. At home he finds a group of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists. Despite a great deal of angry talk, the young bomb enthusiast manufactures no bombs, burns up nothing except his boss and the daughter of the chairwoman of the local America Forever Committee. His name is not Reality but Jimmie Bailey, and, unlike the Fifth Horseman, he never enlists with the other four...
...Sold down the river," wailed Chairwoman Mary T. Norton of the House Labor Committee. But Bill Green could consider that he had not got the worst of the bargain. The Wagner Act's broad declaration of bargaining policy remained intact; Federation craft unions were protected against rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of industrial unions. Howard Smith also kept most of what he wanted: permission for employers to talk (but not act) against unions; a new board, reduced in power and tied up in enough strings to choke it well-nigh to death. All that Green...
...Murdock, called the amendments "emasculatory." But emasculation was a long way off, for the case of NLRB was now dumped into the ample lap of handsome Mary Teresa Norton, who comes from Jersey City and Boss Frank Hague, and who looks 20 years less than her age (65). Chairwoman of the 21-man House Labor Committee, buxom Mrs. Norton snapped that it would have been "much more honest" of the Smith committee to propose outright repeal of the Wagner Act. Fearing that Mrs. Norton, in motherly fashion, would simply sit on the bill, Smith's chum, combustious Eugene ("Goober...