Word: committeeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove this broad indictment, Secretary Ickes turned to a Chicago court record in which Illinois' Republican National Committeeman George F. Harding last July excused his absence from a hearing to the judge on the ground that it had been necessary for him to fly to California to talk with Mr. Hearst. As proof of his journey, he offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method...
...visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20 miles into Maryland to Oxon Hill Manor, country house of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. There the President conferred with some 30 local Democrats, including Maryland's Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed to the White House to question Press Secretary Stephen Early who told them without cracking a smile that the Maryland meeting had been merely social. Up piped United Pressman Fred Storm: "Say, Steve, is this going...
Last June the Democratic National Committeeman from Tennessee, Edward Hull Crump of Memphis, failed to attend the Democratic National Convention. Soon thereafter Tennessee's senior Senator, bumbling old Kenneth McKellar, hotfooted it to Memphis to see Boss Crump, conferred for a week with one of the South's most remarkable politicians...
Mark Requa, onetime California Republican National Committeeman, remarked in Salt Lake City that his friend Herbert Hoover is in the market for "a good mine...
Next day International Olympic Committeeman Brundage, at his first Committee meeting, roundly recommended that all women athletes entered in the Olympics be subjected to a thorough physical examination to make sure they were really 100% female. Reason: two athletes who recently competed in European track events as women were later transformed into men by sex operations...