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chairman

[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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Wall Street now feels fairly confident the Federal Reserve under its new chairman, Kevin Warsh, will start hiking interest rates next week, for the first time since 2023.

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

Prince, Swarmer’s chairman, said in an interview the company wants to continue to acquire and partner with defense and security technology companies whose products are battlefield tested.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Earlier this year, FCC chairman Brendan Carr made the extraordinary demand that ABC file for renewals for eight of its owned-and-operated stations years ahead of schedule.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2026

From a new private townhouse in Milan to a sprawling Fifth Avenue flagship, Moncler chairman Remo Ruffini reflects on his vision for scaling his $16 billion empire.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Raymond Birge, who became department chairman upon Elmer Hall’s passing that same year, was fond of remarking with a wry jocularity, “I don’t know what goes on over there in that Radiation Lab.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The company has now had four chief executives and three chairmen since 2023, including interim roles.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

His term as governor doesn’t expire until 2028, and most chairmen step down from the board when their chairmanship ends.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

Most chairmen leave when their terms expire, but they do not have to -- and Powell could remain a governor until 2028.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

I started calling department chairmen to ask for another week, another ten days—‘more time to reach a decision’— to avoid the decision I would have to make.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

As such he supervised the corporation's financial affairs, chairmaned some of its most important committees.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan last week famed, forthright Physiologist Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago chairmaned a meeting aimed at overcoming this situation.

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

Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In London the German and Italian Ambassadors fortnight ago showed the solidarity of Berlin and Rome by arriving together for sessions of the increasingly farcical International Committee for Non-intervention chairmanned by Lord Plymouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because of shrewdly worded British reservations the Import Duties Advisory Committee chairmanned by hatchet-faced, be-monocled Sir George May can up tariffs to protect any British industry which asked protection before the "truce" was signed.

From Time Magazine Archive




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