Word: committeeman
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...Willkie simply does not exist. In 1940, Ohio's professional Republicans had their own man in Senator Taft. Now they have Governor Bricker. And this time they think they have a winner. Ohio is sewed up tight for Bricker; right now Willkie couldn't swing a precinct committeeman. . . . The independent organization that fought for Willkie in 1940 is dead...
...were assigned on a non-political basis. State Democratic leaders choked with wrath when they found regional OPA and WPB offices headed by and staffed with Republicans. This political unorthodoxy extended even to the Solid South: the OPA regional rationing officer (eight States) is Georgia's G.O.P. national committeeman ; Georgia's OPAdministrator campaigned for Willkie in 1940. Said a prominent Missouri Democrat: "Those bureaus [are] all full of Republicans and mugwumps and carpetbaggers, fellows we never heard of before...
Chairman's Progress. Harrison Spangler has been a stanch Republican wheel horse* all his adult life. Only once did he slip his halter-when he became a Bull Mooser in 1912. He worked up through precinct, county and district jobs to become National Committeeman in 1931. In 1936 he bossed Alf Landon's Chicago headquarters. In 1940 he backed Senator Taft's Presidential aspirations...
Wendell Willkie had apparently won his battle against the man who once seemed to have the chairmanship in his grasp: Illinois Committeeman Werner Schroeder, darling of the Chicago Tribune, of some of the Old Guard, numerous G.O.P. Willkie-haters and a group who merely liked Schroeder's acknowledged skill as a political organizer. Wendell Willkie did not control enough committee votes to beat Schroeder: all he had to fight with were his convictions and his strength as a symbol of G.O.P. progressivism. At week's end, that seemed to have been enough...
...leading candidate was still Illinois's Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who, although he disclaimed any campaign on his own part, had the backing of a diversified group that included Old Guardists, ex-isolationists, and those who would like to oust Wendell Willkie from a dominant place in the G.O.P...