Word: committeeman
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...Newark Newspaper Guild tried to engage in collective bargaining. An importunate Guild committeeman, after thrice vainly requesting an interview with him, mentioned section 7 (a) and the Regional Labor Board in a letter. Fortnight ago Publisher Russell answered by posting a notice on the Ledger bulletin board...
...knowledge of the significance of current affairs. At the risk of appearing cynical, one is tempted to suggest that Dr. Wilson overestimates the alertness of the average teacher and, far more important, neglects the capacity for bootless anxiety, which characterizes the mental state, and inspires the interference, of his committeeman...
...cooperate with the Graduate Secretary of the Union in managing all the varied activities. The names of the man chosen for the 1933 Union Committee will be announced in the CRIMSON at an early date, and complaints and suggestions may be made to one's dormitory committeeman or else to the Secretary of the Union, whose office hours are always posted...
Those who looked for a New Deal Governor to begin with a flourish were disappointed. He did not even deliver an inaugural address. During his first nine days in office, he allowed many people to come and whisper in his ear, including Democratic National Committeeman John H. Wilson (? Scotch-Irish, ¼ Tahitian, ? Hawaiian), but no political appointment was made, not one single official statement issued...
...also to scores of political wiseacres. For months quidnuncs have been privately intimating that the Roosevelt Administration was headed into a big patronage scandal. Before Secretary Morgenthau reported to the President last week he called to Washington Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott was able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit...