Word: committeeman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked him why he got into a hopeless election contest. On a dare, Johnson, a political unknown, operator of a small Jacksonville clothing factory specializing in policeman and fireman uniforms, had entered Florida's Democratic primary as a candidate for the unpaid but influential party post of national committeeman...
...Democratic Committee of Roxbury, Conn. solemnly met to pick its two delegates to the Fifth Congressional District convention that will be held in June. Up rose a committeeman to suggest: "Wouldn't it be nice if Marilyn could be a delegate to the convention?" There being general agreement on the proposition, enrolled Roxbury Democrat Marilyn Monroe will be an alternate delegate to the district meeting, may have a chance to prove that she can swing votes as well as hips...
...name to the FPC. Back in 1957, Tennessee Gas had been granted more than an $8,000,000 rate increase. For Corcoran's help in getting the increase, Tennessee Gas paid his law firm $60,444. The Chicago law firm of Jake Arvey, Illinois political kingpin, Democratic national committeeman, and an Adlai Stevenson stalwart in 1952 and 1956, got $15,000. Since neither was listed as attorney in the case, the FPC examiner who had recommended the increase wanted to know what they had done for the money. Said Tennessee Gas Vice President Ronald McVey: "When either of them...
...game-i.e., was carefully bracing himself in case Hubert Humphrey should win more Wisconsin delegates than Kennedy. (Of Wisconsin's 31 delegate votes, 25 come from the congressional districts, five go to the winner of the popular vote, one is split between the national committeeman and committee-woman.) Just as obviously, Humphrey (TIME Cover, Feb. 1), a man of many words yet barely heard from in the campaign, is no man to concede Kennedy a happy ending in advance...
...vote standoff, effectively neutralizing the Wisconsin delegation to the national convention. Said State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, a not-so-secret Kennedy supporter: "The change can only be interpreted as an attempt to benefit the candidate of those proposing the formula." Sponsor of the new rules: Committeeman Sam Rizzo, ex-United Auto Workers official and chairman of Humphrey's Wisconsin campaign...