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chairman

[chair-muhn] / ˈtʃɛər mən /


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How did Cembalest, the chairman of market and investment strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, manage to time the peak of the memory trade so presciently?

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Chief Executive David Layton is stepping down at the end of the year to become chief investment officer and chairman of the global investment committee, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

His comments came after Kevin Warsh, chairman of the Fed, said last week that policymakers would "have work to do" if they were not confident cost-of-living pressures were easing for Americans.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Frasers said it is also reviewing whether it will continue to support Stephan Sturm as chairman of Hugo Boss’s supervisory board.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Before adjourning, the chairman encouraged her to invite “the ladies of the land” to form their own anti-slavery societies.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“Fed chairmen don’t get those seven votes just by showing up,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

To the chairmen of those committees, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Jim Jordan: What is taking so long?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Sullivan and Gold became joint chairmen of West Ham when they completed their takeover of the club in January 2010.

From BBC Jun. 6, 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

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

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 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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His plan: an Industry Council made up of an equal number of representatives from management and S. W. O. C., chairmanned by a Government man.

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

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




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