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FILE NAME: Plastics (PPG)
DATE: 1939 Feb 27
DOC#: PPG009 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Committee Heads Named by N.A.M.
COMMITTEE HEADS NAMED BY N. A. M.
Coonley Appoints Chairmen of 17 Croups to Shape Policies for 1939
ON ALL INDUSTRY PHASES
Formal Reports Will Be Read Before the Association's Annual Congress
Appointment of the chairmen and vice chairmen of the committees which ulllehape the policies of the National Association of Manufac turers during the current year was announced for publication today by Howaid Coonley, president of the association The work of the coin mittoes coveis all phases of Amer ican industrial development and malteis relating to business gen erally Most of the committees will prepare formal reports for submis sion to the association's Congress of American Industry In December
Depending upon the scope of their work, the committees range In size from as few as ten members to more than fifty More than 500 manufacturers and other business men participate annually in the committees work The appoint inents made by Mr Coonley were as follows
Committee on Agricultural Coop eration--Chairman W W Shoe maker vice president Armour & C o , Chicago, vice chairmen, Her bert L Bodman, president Milmine Bodman & C o , I n c , New York, and Albeit M Paul, pies ident, California Products Com pany Inc , Fresno Calif
Committee on Economic PolicyChairman Georga H Houston Greenwich, Conn , vice chairmen and executive director Maik M Jones president, Akron Belting Company, Akron, Ohio, and vice chairm an, W A Carson, president, Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Company, Evansville, Ind
Com m ittee on Econom ic Security --Chairman. Walter D Fuller pres ident, Curtis Publishing Company, Ph iladelphia and vice chairman Geoige W Guth manager annuity and insurance department, SoconyVacnura Oil Company, Inc , New York
Committee on Educational Coop eration--Chairman H W Prentis J r , president, Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, Pa , and vice chau man Mark M Jones presi dent Akron Belting Company. Akron, Ohio
Committee on Employment Rela tions--Chaiiman A W Hawkes, president, Congoleum-Nairn, Inc , Kearny N J , vice chairmen, L N Bent, vice president, Hercules Pow der Company, Inc , Wilmington, Del C S Cralgmile, vice piesident, Belden Manufacturing Company Chicago and Colonel Charles E Speaks, president, Fisk Robber Cor poration, Cblcopee Falls, MasB
Committee on Government Fi nance-Chairman, H Smith Rich aidson, chairman, Vick Chemical Company New York vice chair men C N Osborne vice president M A Hanna Company, Cleveland, and F E Schluter piesident, Thermoid Company, Trenton N J
Committee on Healthful Working Conditions--Chairman H C Beav er piesident. Worthington Pump and Machinery Coiporatton, Harri son N J vice chairman Charles B Nolle, president Crane Com pany, Chicago, and chairman ad vlsory committee, Dr W Irving Clark personnel director, Norton Company, Woicester, Mass
Committee on Industrial Eco nomics-Chairman. Malcolm Muir, president and publisher, Newsweek, New Yoik and vice chairman Rob ert M Gaylord, president, Ingersoll Milling Machine Company, Rock ford 111
Committee on Industrial Financins,--Chairman, George H Houston, Greenwich Conn and vice chair man, Philip M Morgan, president, Morgan Construction Company, Worcester Mass
Committee on Industrial Prac tices--Chairman F W Lovejoy piesident Eastman Kodak Com pany, Rochester, N Y vice chair man, William A Atkms vice piesi dent, E C Atkins & C o , Indian apolis Ind
Committee on National Defense and Industrial Mobilization--Chair man, A W Robertson, chaiiman, Westmghouso Electric and Manu facturing Company, Pittsbuigh, and vice chairman, W S Parish, presi dent, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, New York
Committee on Patents and Trade Maiks--Chairman, Robeit L Lund, president, Lambert P h am acal Com pany St Louis, vice chairmen, J Howard Pew president Sun Oil Company, Philadelphia, and Waiter Robbins, chairman General Cable Coiporatton New York
Committee on Public RelationsCiialrman S Clay Williams chair man of the hoard, R J Reynolds Tobacco Company Winston Salem N C , and i ice chairman, Paul Gariett ducctor of public iclations General Motois Corporation, New York
Committee on Relation of Govern them to Industry--Chairman, R W Moore, president, Canada Dry Gin ger Ale Inc New York, vicechair men, Otho M Graves, president, General Crushed Stone Company, Easton Pa and W F Harrah, chairman National-Standard Com pany, Niles Mich
Committee on Scientific Research --Chairman M H Eisenhart, piesi dent Bausch & Lomb Optical Com pany Rochester N Y , and vice chairman, Dr K arl T Compton president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass
Committee on Study of Depres slon--Chairman W T Holliday, president the Standatd Oil Com pany Cleveland, and vice chair man E V O'Danle! vice piesident Ametican Cyanamid Company New York
Committee on Tai iff--Chairman Howard I Young president Amer ican Zinc, Lead and Smelting Com pany St Louis and vice chairman, A C Ackerman, president, Ackshand Knitting Company, Ballston Spa, N Y