Word: committeeman
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...famed son, Thomas Jr., captain of the yet unpicked international team and chief of the defense committee, asked his father to help him because they get on well together and because Thomas Hitchcock Sr. is good at the sort of thing he will do for the committee. Every committeeman has some special job. Mr. Hitchcock Sr.'s will be to train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found he could not go east until August. This is the first year that the U. S. Polo Association has owned...
...become celebrated through her coaching of youngsters at Aiken, S. C. and at Westbury (TIME, Oct. 8). Soon the association's 17 ponies will be moved, in the padded, glistening trucks which Long Island people call "horse-vans," from Mitchell Field, L. I. to Westbury, where the new committeeman will look them over...
...John William Davis, onetime (1924) Democratic presidential nominee, to defend him. The subcommittee reported to the whole committee two months ago that it found insufficient grounds for impeachment, recommended a mild form of censure. Particularly dissatisfied with this finding was New York's Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, a Judiciary committeeman who has been acting like a watch dog of the U.S. Judiciary (TIME, March 24). Congressman LaGuardia, passionately pleading for 100% judicial purity, was largely responsible for the committee's shift from mild censure to severe condemnation. Unanimously last week the Judiciary Committee recommended and unanimously the House voted this...
...Grundy about a Grundy-Brown ticket. Senator Grundy not only spurned this alliance but also, without consulting anybody, announced that his candidate for Governor was Samuel S. Lewis, onetime State Treasurer. Promptly, with the help of William Wallace Atterbury, President of the Pennsyl- vania R. R. and Republican National Committeeman, Boss Vare chose Secretary of Labor James John Davis as his senatorial candidate, made a Davis-Brown ticket to oppose the Grundy-Lewis ticket (TIME, March...
...that Prohibition is a failure. The economic benefit of Prohibition is a prime rock on which Drys rest their major argument for its preservation. Against that rock last week fell splintering blows delivered by William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania R. R. ("Standard Railroad of the World"), Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania, and Pierre Samuel duPont, board chairman of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., and a major financial power in General Motors...