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chairman

[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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“The idea that the new, the 17th chairman of the Federal Reserve is going to act like the 13th, 14th, or 15th, there’s no status quo ante to return to,” said Warsh.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

He insisted that the occasions he dined with Man City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak at matches at the Etihad in 2017 and 2018 were "included" in a statement issued by the local authority on Monday.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Rice was most recently chairman of Walt Disney Television and chairman of General Entertainment for Walt Disney Co.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

He also served as chairman and president of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Next, the chairman read from an agenda for today’s proceedings.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

The test of the Warsh Fed, as with all chairmen, is whether the central bank achieves and maintains price stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Indeed, Warsh was less willing than previous Fed chairmen to speculate much on the path of the economy, inflation and interest rates during his first press conference.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Manifold’s abrupt departure adds to BP’s leadership turmoil, which has seen four CEOs and three chairmen since 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Before you get to that stage, however, club owners and chairmen will rely on their sporting director and chief executive to compile a list of names.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

I wrote a note to all the chairmen of English departments who had offered me jobs.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The Senate committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed ever since.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was late in the afternoon of the same day that the Federative Council sent its committee, chairmaned by Engineer Scott, to interview the ex-general manager at his rooms in the Clarendon.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

Four House Democrats and three Republicans conducted the investigation, chairmanned by Democrat John W. Mc-Cormack of South Boston, precipitated by the anti-Nazi outcries of Democrat Samuel Dickstein of Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was bad news for Mississippi's Senator Stephens who was not only up for re-election but also chairmanned the Senate Committee before which the Thorp nomination was pending.

From Time Magazine Archive

Owen D. Young chairmanned a committee to raise $1.000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating it as "old."

From Time Magazine Archive

Two interests which did not think themselves sufficiently respected were the protective bondholders' committee headed by Vice President John W. Stedman of Prudential Insurance Co. and an independent committee chairmanned by Historian Charles A. Beard.

From Time Magazine Archive


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