Word: committeeman
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...convened to make nominations for the November election. From Homer Stille Cummings, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, down to the youngest of the 1,000 delegates at the Griswold Hotel, the party representatives had one antagonist in mind: big-bodied, hard-eyed John Henry Roraback, Republican National Committeeman, for 18 years Connecticut's firm-fisted G. O. P. Boss, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co. To break Boss Roraback's grip, the Democrats at Eastern Point informally decided to put up for Governor no hard-boiled political veteran of the same kidney but rather a gentle...
Colorado. Republican National Committeeman Clarence Clark Hamlin wired Senator Nye: "It is openly charged and I believe with much foundation that an effort is being made to purchase the Republican Senatorship in this State. . . ." Chief contestants for the Republican Senatorial nomination: George H. Shaw, William Van Derveer Hodges, onetime treasurer of the Republican National Committee. Shaw supporters charged Candidate Hodges with excessive expenditures. Another accusation is that Candidate Hodges bought 300 shares of Fitzsimmons Oil & Leasing Co. stock from Rev. Arthur V. Finchis, superintendent of the Colorado Anti-Saloon League and received a "satisfactory" (Dry) rating from the League whereas...
...murder but free on bail is Dr. B. J. F. Westabrook of Indianapolis, President Williams' bosom friend. Arrested for the murder and still in jail is George Washington, Indianapolis detective.* Sought for extradition from Tennessee as accomplices are Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend, secretary of the Publishing Board, executive committeeman of the Federal Council of Churches, and his son Arthur Melvin Townsend...
...Farm Board's wheat acreage reduction program, the result of the primary was interpreted as an endorsement of the Administration's farm relief policies. Senator Allen, though nominated, lost political power when Governor Reed was beaten because David Winfield Mulvane, potent Old Guard boss, National Committeeman for Kansas, successfully supported Nominee Haucke. Vice President Curtis, partial to the Mulvane-Haucke wing of the party, journeyed to Topeka to cast his primary ballot, then hurried east to enjoy the social atmosphere of Newport, R. I. Missouri. With no serious contests all 16 Congressmen (ten Republicans, six Democrats) were renominated...
...laid down the law," a grinning committeeman told them. "He insisted that the platform be drawn in conformity with his Newark speech...