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unusual facts about The Chairman



Conrad Yama

Yama's film credits include playing the title role, an unnamed Mao Zedong opposite Gregory Peck in The Chairman, as well as a number of small and supporting roles in film and made for TV movies.


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Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project

House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) requested the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to assist Representative Chris Cannon (R-UT), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), in conducting the Project, which is anticipated to be completed by September 2006.

AirAsia India

Prior to the airline's formation, Tony Fernandes announced that he would like Ratan Tata to be the Chairman of the airline, however the latter refused, though he later consented to being the Chief Advisor to the AirAsia India management board.

Airlie Beach, Queensland

It is almost certain that the town was named for the parish of Airlie, in Scotland, as the name was suggested by the chairman of the former Proserpine Shire Council, who was born in nearby Montrose, Scotland.

Aldo Gucci

Aldo Gucci (26 May 1905 – 19 January 1990) was the chairman of Gucci Shops Inc. from 1953 to 1986.

Anglo-Saxon charters

Professor Nicholas Brooks is the chairman of the committee in charge and Professor Simon Keynes is the secretary.

Asia Wealth Bank

As of 2013, Aik Htun remain as the chairman of business group Shwe Taung Group of companies.

Chew Choon Seng

He was the Chairman of SilkAir, a fully owned subsidiary of SIA when SilkAir Flight 185 crashed on 19 December 1997 en route from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Singapore Changi Airport.

Citibank Argentina

The president of Citicorp Argentina during the 1990s, H. Richard Handley, had been raised in Argentina with the chairman of Citigroup at the time, John S. Reed, and obtained his support for the bank's lucrative participation in the 1990 sale of the state telephone concern ENTel.

Dafydd Elis-Thomas

He was the chairman of the Welsh Language Board between 1994 and 1999, and is a former member of the Arts Council of Wales and the British Film Institute where he was Chairman of Screen between 1992 and 1999.

Daniel Hopkin

His son Sir David Hopkin (1922–1997) was also a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate for over 20 years, but is probably best known as the Chairman and later President of the British Boxing Board of Control.

David Satian

Another notable composer in his family is Ashot Satian (1906–1956), the chairman of the Composers Union of Armenia from 1947 to 1952, Laureate of the State Stalin Prize in 1952 (also see: USSR State Prize / in Russian: Государственная Сталинская премия) who is known for his songs and also for composing the first Armenian String Quartet in 1936.

Dieter Zetsche

Dieter Zetsche (born on May 5, 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a German businessman and the Chairman of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars since 2006 as well as member of the company's Board of Management since 1998.

Eddy Wauters

Mr. Wauters had a long career in banking and was the chairman of Kredietbank (now KBC Bank).

Edinburgh International Television Festival

One of the best remembered speeches was given in 1993 by an ill Dennis Potter, who attacked the chairman and director general of the BBC of the day by saying: "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."

Federico Ghizzoni

Ghizzoni also sits on the management board at the Bank Austria and is the chairman of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Association in Milan.

Franck Riboud

He serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Groupe Danone.

Gor Sunguh Commission

Between April 2003 and March 2005 Gor Sunguh was the chairman of the ‘Parliamentary Select Committee Investigating Circumstances Leading to the Death of the Late Dr. Robert Ouko, EGH, MP’ tasked with investigating the death of former Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Robert Ouko, in February 1990 .

Gosport Conservative primary, 2009

The Chairman of the Gosport Constituency Conservative Association was accused of sexism after he told Channel 4 News that he would happily appoint a female candidate if she were attractive.

Government structure of Communist Czechoslovakia

These included the minister-chairmen of the Federal Price Office and the People's Surveillance Commission, the chairman of the State Planning Commission, and the minister-deputy chairmen of the State Planning Commission and the State Commission for Research and Development and Investment Planning.

Hanzawa Naoki

Kin'ya Kitaōji as Ken Nakanowatari, the chairman of Tokyo Central Bank.

Harold Bowden

Sir Harold Bowden, 2nd Baronet, GBE (9 July 1880 – 24 August 1960), was the chairman and chief executive of the Raleigh Bicycle Company and Sturmey-Archer Ltd from his father's death in 1921 until his own retirement in 1938.

Harry Heltzer

Harry Heltzer (August 22, 1911 – September 21, 2005) was the Chairman & Chief Executive Office of 3M from 1970 to 1975.

Herbert Hake

Hake served as the Chairman of Conference of the Headmasters' Conference of the Independent Schools of Australia.

Herbert Mayr

Mayr studied sport in Bologna during the mid-1960s, at the end of the 1970s was a professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1987 until 1994 was the chairman of the sports club SSV Bozen.

Igor Bavčar

On the same year, he became the chairman of the Istrabenz holding company from Koper, which made him one of the most powerful managers in Slovenia.

Ismail Qasim Yar

Ismail Qasemyar was the chairman of the Emergency Loya Jirga (Grand Council) of 2002 in Afghanistan.

James Disbrow

He was chairman of the USFSA's International Committee during the Tonya Harding scandal at the time of the 1994 Winter Olympics and served as the US figure skating team leader at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the chairman of the organizing committee for the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota before his election to the USFSA presidency.

Jeffrey A. Citron

Jeffrey A. Citron is the chairman of Vonage, a voice-over-IP phone company.

Jeffrey Roy

In 2010, he was elected as the Chairman of the Franklin Democratic Town Committee, co-chaired Franklin’s Anti-Bullying Task Force, served as a member of Franklin’s Horace Mann School Building Committee, and was the chairman of the Board of Directors for the non-profit Masque Theatre Co., Inc. in Milford, Massachusetts.

John Hoover Rothermel

He served as the chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor during the Sixty-second Congress, and of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce during the Sixty-third Congress.

John Templeton, Jr.

(born February 19, 1940) is the elder son of the stock investor, businessman and philanthropist John Templeton and serves as the Chairman and President of the John Templeton Foundation.

Kent Kresa

He was named the Chairman of GM on March 30, 2009 after Rick Wagoner, the Chairman and CEO of GM was ordered to resign by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Kristian Djurhuus

He was the chairman of the town council of Froðba from 1926 to 1930 and was a regular member from 1930 to 1934.

Latika Katt

She taught at Jamia Millia Islamia and Banaras Hindu University for many years starting 1981 and is currently the Head of Department of Fine Arts at Jamia Millia Islamia.

Lawrence Gonzi

Malta’s support for the Libyan revolution has been appreciated by the country’s new rulers and the chairman of the Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has already made it clear that Malta will have a “distinguished role” in the rebuilding of Libya.

Luis Donaldo Colosio

In the early years of Salinas's presidency, Colosio served as the chairman of their party's National Executive Committee.

National Dairy Development Board

Dr. Amrita Patel is the chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, Anand.

Nepalese royal massacre

Subsequently, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, the chairman of the Nepalese Maoist Party, in a public gathering claimed that the massacre was planned by the Indian intelligence agency RAW or the American CIA.

Newnes, New South Wales

A town, named after Sir George Newnes, the chairman of the Commonwealth Oil Corporation at the time, was established close to the mining leases.

Peter Godsoe

He is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and serves as the Chairman of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Sobeys.

Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron

1981-92; proprietor of The Carcanet Press Ltd. from 1983; and the Chairman of the Folio Society since 1982, the National Gallery Co Ltd (formerly named National Gallery Publications Ltd.) 1996-98, and the Guardian Media Group plc. 1997-2000.

Robert L. Brock

As the Chairman of Brock Hotel Corporation, the first and at the time largest franchisee of Holiday Inns, he founded Showbiz Pizza Place in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas.

Saudi King Abdullah International Award for Translation

The Chairman of the award is Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs), a son of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Shakne Epshtein

Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of JAC and Epshtein approached Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister and a Stalin henchman, with an idea to create a Jewish republic in the Crimea or in the Volga area (in place of the dismantled Volga Germans republic).

Stephen Koroknay

Koroknay was formerly a councillor of Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Limited and the chairman of the Advisory Board for the School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

Theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy

On Monday 21 March, Joe Mears, the Chairman of the Football Association, received an anonymous phone call.

Thomas Nyfenger

In 1967, Nyfenger joined the flute faculty of the Yale School of Music and also served as the chairman of the wind department.

Ulf Adelsohn

He was the chairman of the Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students, opposed the occupation of the Student Union Building in Stockholm in 1968 and was a co-founder of Borgerliga Studenter – Opposition '68 later in the same year.

Valerio Zingarelli

Valerio Zingarelli is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Babelgum.

Wally Uihlein

Wally Uihlein (born 1950) in Haverhill, Massachusetts is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Acushnet Company, a subsidiary of Fortune Brands which comprises the golf brands Titleist, FootJoy, Pinnacle, and Scotty Cameron.