Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which meant that the North was in complete control of the Democratic Party-except in the U.S. Congress, where senior Southerners predominate among committee chairmen, and only until 1960, when Democratic presidential candidates will start courting Southern delegates for convention votes...
Despite the Leverett gift, however, the chairmen of the College-wide drive have decided to extend solicitation until Monday, since "only three-quarters of the undergraduate body has been contacted and we are still short of our goal...
...Boston's Common Council. Old Ward 17, an immigrant district which included City Hospital and the Mud Flats, had been devotedly tended by tight-fisted Pea-Jacket Maguire who had only recently been hoodwinked into giving up his patronage for the honorific and powerless post of Democratic City Commission Chairmen by John F. Dever, the Uncle of the late Governor. Dever's position was not yet secure; and if Curley could get enough publicity, his friends persuaded him, he might get elected...
...tours in which the wives-Muriel Humphrey, Jane Freeman and Abigail McCarthy, old friends, old political pros-went on two-to-three-day outstate swings, shook more hands, won women's votes. ¶ Backed up the campaign teams by unifying all campaign staffs, coordinating congressional candidates and county chairmen, setting up adjoining headquarters in St. Paul's dingy Capri Hotel, unifying all funds, spending wherever needed...
...Knutson's Ninth District and need to develop a vigorous young replacement who would measure up to the D.F.L.'s home-loving and service-to-constituents standards. The D.F.L. was quick to recognize a new problem: in 1958 the long-moribund state G.O.P. developed some new county chairmen, new candidates, held two congressional seats the D.F.L. had fought hard for, held the state senate. Moreover, maverick-minded Minnesotans do not like one party to get too powerful whether Stassenite in the 1940s or D.F.L. in the 1950s...