Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon Texans who came up to Congress after him that when the Democrats' big day came and he left the House after one term as Speaker, his Texas bloc possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas' importance in the Union. Today Texans are chairmen of the House committees on Agriculture (Marvin Jones), Elections No. 1 (West), Judiciary (Sumners), Public Buildings & Grounds (Lanham), Rivers & Harbors (Mansfield), Un-American Activities (Dies), to say nothing of Sam Rayburn being Majority Floor Leader. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John Garner by a half-year in length...
...fact that the ballot box has been stuffed must not prevent freshmen from standing up and fighting for the abolition of a meaningless form. The present system of elections makes a farce of democracy. The duly elected representatives of the class have absolutely no function but to appoint the chairmen of the Jubilee and the Smoker--something which the Union Committee could do just as well. Hence the election resolves down to a formal recognition of the most prominent freshmen...
...Chairmen of Departments should be elected by all members of Departments...
...service of his predecessor, Republican Walter Jodok Kohler, which Phil La Follette enjoyed was the State Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
Motor Trouble. One such situation that Mr. Lewis recently had to handle without constitutional sanction was a rift in the United Automobile Workers of America. Now firmly in control of C. I. O's Vice Chairmen Hillman and Philip Murray, impoverished U. A. W. last fortnight borrowed $50,000 from Mr. Lewis' United Miners. Last week it developed at the convention that U. A. W.'s sorely divided officers had spent some of the money for Elgin watches to give Messrs. Lewis, Hillman. Murray and C. I. O. Headquarters Director John Brophy as "symbols of unity...