Word: committeeman
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...members (the 14th member, Henri Bonnet, was en route from the U.S.) held their first plenary session, agreed on procedure, began discussions. The event was important, for it helped to clear a stifled political atmosphere, shifted emphasis from single personalities to group judgments. Said one pleased committeeman: "A democratic institution has been born...
...Committeeman Ralph O. Brewster, Senator from Maine, was not reassured...
...first time since 1889 that a President had suffered a rebuff on a diplomatic nomination: on that occasion it was a cynical Senate which turned down an able man.* For Ed Flynn it meant the loss of three jobs in three weeks-the national chairmanship, committeeman from New York, boss of The Bronx...
...State capital at Springfield one day went Illinois's G.O.P. National Committeeman Werner W. Schroeder and Cook County G.O.P. Chairman John T. Dempsey. From early afternoon until midnight they conferred with ambitious Governor Dwight H. Green in the old, rambling Governor's mansion. Roger Faherty was in Springfield, too; but except for a brief visit to the mansion he spent his time fending off reporters at the Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home...
...humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman said: "We must draw the line somewhere." Cracked Augustus John: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...