Word: committeeman
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...figure that I can't get anywhere unless I give more time to the game. . . ." It continued the next day, with a letter from Holcombe Ward, chairman of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee, urging Frankie Parker not to give up school. Said Committeeman Ward: "It seems to me that a good education will be of benefit to you throughout life. . . ." It reached a climax with Mercer Beasley's sagest contribution to the uproar: "Frankie's got a swelled head. I tried to make him use the circle swingback but he wouldn't listen...
...receives. In the committee room there is generally a regular system of note passing, as reporters send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder...
...drawing a creed, not a pla-form," declared Harrison Earl Spangler, Republican National Committeeman from Iowa and one of the promoters of the convention...
...years the Howells and the Grays have battled fiercely. In 1924 Editor Cohen marched boldly into a Klan-dominated State Democratic Convention, marched out with Publisher Howell's job as national committeeman. The election of Howell-backed Talmadge to the governorship forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays...
...Cotton Committeeman. And when processors began sniping at the cotton tax, Chairman Day and some of his public-spirited neighbors decided to invite representatives of the nation's farmers to rendezvous with them in Washington to "demand continuance of AAA and to point out the benefits already accrued them." The benefits were realistic. Hundreds of thousands of farmers like Cliff Day had dipped into...