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In 1948, he served as chairman of the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, which held hearings on such matters as export control violations, for which Soviet spy William Remington was called in to testify ; the trial of Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch ; and the Mississippi Democratic Party's sale of postal jobs, which Mississippians from rural areas attested to purchasing.
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Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.
He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China ( ROC ) from 1928 to 1948.
Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.
The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.
One of the outstanding halakhists of the movement, he served as a leading member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards from 1948 until his death in 1979.
Kim Il-sung served as General Secretary of the WPK from 1948 until his death in July 1994, simultaneously holding the office of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and the office of President from 1972 to 1994.
The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.
Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government.
He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926 ; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930 ; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.
Bolesław Bierut, an NKVD agent, and a hard Stalinist served as first Secretary General of the ruling PUWP from 1948 to 1956, playing a leading role in the Sovietisation of Poland and the installation of her most repressive regime.
He also served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1945 to 1948.
He served as mayor from 1945 to 1948.
From 1946 to 1948, he served as Minister of Defense, then Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1951.
In 1948, he served as Ambassador to France.
Gary Adrian Condit ( born April 21, 1948 ) is a former politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003.
After discovering that most of their profits came from hamburgers, the brothers closed their restaurant for three months and reopened it in 1948 as a walk-up stand offering a simple menu of hamburgers, french fries, shakes, coffee, and Coca-Cola, served in disposable paper wrapping.
From 1945 to 1948, Manchuria ( Inner Manchuria ) served as a base area for the People's Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang ( KMT ).
However, after the Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948 the new Communist government would not allow them to apply to be housed in the new Lidice because they had served in the forces of one of the western powers.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari () ( born April 3, 1948 ) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
Truman, who had served nearly all of FDR's unexpired fourth term and who had been elected to a full term in 1948, thought it better to resume the tradition of leaving office after two terms, rather than run for reelection in 1952.
Mansfield served five terms in the House, being re-elected in 1944, 1946, 1948, and 1950.
He went to China on a special mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and served as a delegate to the ninth Inter-American Conference in Colombia in 1948.
Reece served as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1940, and 1948.
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* 1890 – Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee ( d. 1948 )
From 1948 until 1967 Kuratowski was director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and was also a long-time chairman of the Polish and International Mathematics Societies.
Labor Zionism became the dominant tendency in the World Zionist Organization and in 1935 Ben-Gurion became chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency, a role he kept until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Douglas retired in 1948 and became chairman of BEA in 1949 a post he retained until 1964.
Management of the theatre was assumed in 1948 by Sir Hugh Wontner, chairman of the Savoy hotel group.
In 1948 he was also appointed the chairman of the National Film Finance Corporation, an office he held until 1951.
In 1948, Jules Stein moved up as MCA's first chairman, giving Lew Wasserman charge of day-to-day operations of the company as President.
He was also a board member of the Norwegian State Railways from 1948 – 1957 and chairman of the supervisory council of Folketeatret from 1948 to his death.
He was honorary chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society and elected to Academia Sinica and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1948 and 1955 respectively.
Swinburne and Leo Baekeland later founded the Demard Lacquer Company, which eventually became Bakelite Limited, which Swinburne served as chairman and, in 1948, as honorary president.
From 1948 to 1954 he was the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Internal Affairs ( and the chief of the secret police ).
Fred Hampton ( August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969 ) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party ( BPP ).
By 1929, Burton was president of Simpson ’ s, becoming chairman of the board in 1948 when his son Edgar assumed the presidency.
Yu Shyi-kun (, born April 25, 1948 ), a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party, is a former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan.
When Carte died in 1948, his daughter Bridget did not wish to become chairman, accepting instead the vice-chairman position, and the Savoy board elected Wontner, the first person to combine the roles of chairman and managing director since the Savoy's founder, Richard D ' Oyly Carte.
The Swedish outside-left Rudolf Kock ( who would become chairman of the selectors in 1948 working alongside George Raynor ), would have another fine game against Egypt where Sweden won 5-0.
From 1948 to 1951, he served as chairman of the council of the Festival of Britain, helping to organise and promote the event.
Dr. Yosef " Yossi " Beilin (, born in Petah Tikva on 12 June 1948 ) is a left-wing Israeli politician and a former Knesset member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and Justice Minister, representing both the Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, of which he served as chairman between 2003 and 2006.
Reed E. Hundt ( born March 3, 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan ) was chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997.
Latham had served on the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) since 1935, and, within a month of his resignation as Leader of the LCC, his appointment as chairman of the London Transport Executive ( LTE ), which was to replace the LPTB from 1 January 1948, was announced by the Labour Government on 20 August 1947.
Salomon left the Navy in 1948 and eventually discussed his idea of a documentary series with one of his Harvard classmates, Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television and the son of David Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA ( then the owner of NBC ).
He was also, from 1929 to 1945, the chairman of the Pilgrims Society, becoming their president, until his death in 1948.
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