Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editorial Department, chairman, E. A. Mays; sub-chairmen, A. D. Bell; G. C. Homans, B. E. Pollak, and J. W. Sandford...
Business Department, chairman, J. S. Barker; sub-chairmen, C. F. Bound, J. W. de Milhau, C. A. Parmiter, and L. W. Snyder...
Little reception knots formed about the House floor. Veterans, committee chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
Mechanism. In theory the House is run by a Speaker, a Majority Leader, a Minority Leader, the Rules Committee, the chairmen of the several committees-and an unofficial body known as the Republican Steering Committee. In actual practice the legislative program is framed and executed by a small group of insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal...
...Party and our Soviet Government. . . . Murderous attacks have been perpetrated against Communist village school teachers and social workers, women as well as men. . . . Seven murders and four attempted murders took place in public assemblies or in Soviet bureaus. The roll of our Communist dead contains the names of four Chairmen of local Soviets and one Secretary. ... A destructive blow at the Kulaks must be delivered immediately...