Word: committeeman
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Nothing could be more asinine than a statement issued recently by School Committeeman Joseph Lee, Jr., who would strip Harvard of its leadership in American education because, he says, it no longer fits young men for the job of life. For one who is so tied up with education, his attitude is a bit unseemly...
Retired. Charles D. Hilles, 70, who as Chairman of the Republican National Committee ran the unsuccessful Presidential campaigns of William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes, and for 20 years remained the dominant figure of Republican politics in New York, as Republican National Committeeman from New York...
Center Groton is a leisurely New England village. Out on the school steps sat District Committeeman Dudley Brown, a 56-year-old Yankee carpenter, who had appointed Mrs. Bucklyn because she had 17 years teaching experience. The School Board and superintendent who had appointed Miss Innes, ruled that Mrs. Bucklyn would get no pay. But Committeeman Brown had possession of the steps, a seasoned pipe between his teeth. When State troopers came around he shooed them...
...Henry" used to hoist into place these solid blocks of business enterprise was a political machine which he began building as a youthful town committee chairman in North Canaan. In a borrowed horse & buggy he would haul lazy Republicans to the polls. By 1898 he was a State committeeman. and in 1910 made his first bid for Bosshood. He ran Charles A. Goodwin of Hartford for Governor against Everett J. Lake, then Lieutenant-Governor. Goodwin won the nomination but "J. Henry" had split the Party, and for the first time in 20 years a Democrat was elected. Governor Simeon...
...Last week Publisher Clarence Clark Hamlin of the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, onetime National Republican Committeeman, resigned as State Central Chairman with the announcement that the G. O. P. is no longer "a vital or even an active force" and the hope that someone would start a new "party for conservatives...