Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half an hour, the convention saw the familiar spectacle of delegates begging for a chance to abandon their former champion and join the winner. State chairmen jumped up & down like little boys who were out trying to catch the teacher's eye. Switch after switch was announced in the stampede. Finally, Joe Martin announced the result: Eisenhower 845, Taft 280, Warren. 77, MacArthur...
...miles by plane, bus, train and auto, made 524 speeches, campaigned in 41 of the 48 states,* crossed the country three times. Compared to his present team, 1940's was "amateur," says Taft. The chain of command runs down through a top staff to Republican national committeemen, state chairmen, county chairmen, precinct workers. There is a Taft organization in every state, a Taft man on the job in almost every county...
...Among the honorary chairmen: Philosophers Benedetto Croce, Jacques Maritain, Bertrand Russell and John Dewey...
Both Bender and Provost Buck were in St. Louis for the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting during the riot. Bender, who returned Monday, told the chairmen that he was investigating the matter thoroughly, and that each individual case would be studied before any recommendations were made...
Adding its protest to those of the chairmen and the Student Council, the Executive Board of the H.L.U. yesterday condemned the methods of the police in Thursday's riot as a "violation of civil liberties," and asked the Cambridge Civic Association to take action against those particular policemen whom eyewitnesses have identified as being especially brutal. The Executive Board declared, "There is no difference between a violation of civil liberties at the precinct level and a violation on the floors of Congress, and we oppose both of them...