Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's greatest achievement was in winning the agreement of Forrestal and Nimitz to support the proposals he had arbitrated. A major obstacle remained in the entrenched chairmen of the House and Senate Naval Affairs Committees, fearful of losing power & patronage. Public and military pressure would have to reduce these last political pillboxes...
Indiana politicos knew that their Republican Governor Ralph Gates had been building a state-wide machine ever since he was elected two years ago. But it was strictly rear-wheel drive-a conventional Republican model with low-pressure heads and reciprocating county chairmen. It would run on alcohol if necessary. Nobody was overenthusiastic when it was brought to Indianapolis last week for the Republican State Convention...
...natural habitat of national chairmen of both parties is the end of a limb. Last week Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece was sitting comfortably on his. In Columbus, Ohio he predicted that the G.O.P. would win control of the Senate in November...
Harry Bridges bossed the West Coast longshoremen. The pair of them, co-chairmen of C.M.U., could pull out 200,000 men. At home it would be almost as formidable a strike as the railways. Around the world it would be worse...
...board will meet tomorrow to pick officers, name committee chairmen, and arrange for next term's series of forums...