Word: committeeman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fall by the handful. By last week it became apparent that this phase of the New Deal was leading to a new Democratic shuffle of the political cards in the dexterous fingers of James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee. ¶ Arthur Francis Mullen, Committeeman from Nebraska, resigned to continue a lucrative political law practice in Washington. Last week in a stormy Democratic meeting at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Mullen shouted: "I represent the President here." At his command his henchman, Keith Neville, was elected National Committeeman in his stead. ¶Nellie Tayloe Ross. Committeewoman from...
Many political bosses have never served on National Committees nor have they accepted public office, but their power was just as extensive. It does not matter who is National Committeeman but what force lies behind the individual who holds the post. In the present instance, James A. Farley will be just as powerful when he resigns as chairman of the Democratic National Committee as if he had stayed in command. It is the Administration in office which says, as a rule, what shall be done in party councils. Meetings of the Democratic National Committee will be dominated by President Roosevelt...
...reside in their states and do not have day-by-day contact with the administration. If it were necessary to line up delegates for a National Convention, which it probably will not be necessary to do in 1936, the office-holder has an even better opportunity than a National Committeeman to see that the wishes of the Administration are carried out. For the man in office has more prestige and influence and inferentially can promise rewards. He is on the inside looking out instead of being on the outside looking...
...gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had ever had. He showed the same spirit, won the same reception...
Died. John Henry ("Uncle John") McCooey, 69, Democratic boss of Brooklyn since 1909, Democratic National Committeeman from New York; of myocarditis; in Brooklyn. A rotund, jovial man with sweeping white mustaches, he kept his machine firmly allied to Tammany Hall except for one quickly healed break in 1925. With the Fusion victory of last November he found his dominion slipping, saw Federal patronage dispensed in his own demesne without his consent...