Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Posteards will be soul to all Freshmen having signified an interest in Brooks House work giving appointments when they may consult the various committee chairmen to discover where their particular interests and abilities lie. During the next two weeks, a series of nightly trips will afford an opportunity to visit Boston settlement houses...
With his thousands of national committeemen, State chairmen, State committeemen, county chairmen, county committeemen and precinct leaders lying like fever thermometers under the tongues of the body politic, a national Party chairman is supposed to know the curve of the nation's political temperature well in advance of lay observers. Last week, after consolidating the readings of his executive committeemen at a consultation in Chicago, Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced that the national fever chart of Landon enthusiasm showed a slump during August, but was now displaying a hopeful rise. In that revelation...
...East and West his program was the same. The press reported his public speeches, gave the impression that he was simply stumping the country. But privately clean-cut, aggressive John Hamilton was hobnobbing with local bigwigs, pumping the hands of county chairmen and precinct leaders, fulfilling Nominee Landon's parting instructions to "give 'em hell and get their tails...
...thing, he has sat down with county chairmen of all kinds and he knows the kind of follow-up that will become necessary if he is to have an effective organization. . . . I will be very much surprised if this does not turn out to be about the best managed Republican national campaign since 1896." In his own defense, John Hamilton declares of his Western tour: "If I hadn't made the trip there wouldn't be a Republican organization in that section...
Instead of calling up financial bigwigs, his first act was to telephone all nearby county chairmen. He proposed to work, he told them, strictly through their organization. He wanted to meet and handshake their district leaders, whom he amazed by knowing their first names. He aid he proposed to see each & every one of the Party's 3,000 county chairmen before this campaign was over. They were the boys who must win for him. He knew. He had been...