Word: committeeman
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...require states to provide public education? Of those who replied, 17 said yes, n no. The court's ruling was based on something more obvious: the state law denied equal protection and circumvented desegregation. Summation of the Louisiana decision, written by Judge John Minor Wisdom, onetime Republican national committeeman appointed to the court by President Eisenhower in 1957: "This is not the moment in history for a state to experiment with ignorance...
...when Larry was a part-time helper in Springfield's Democratic headquarters and his father was a state committeeman from western Massachusetts, the O'Briens defied their Irish Catholic neighbors and supported Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, instead of Al Smith, who was the local favorite. O'Brien Sr. was denied a seat in the Massachusetts delegation for his heresy, but history proved that Father knew best...
...Dillon's was politics. "I imagine he was bored as hell with banking," says a friend. A lifelong Republican, Dillon worked with John Foster Dulles on the 1948 presidential campaign of New York's Tom Dewey; a year later he won an election as a G.O.P. state committeeman. In 1952 he helped secure New Jersey's Republican delegation for Presidential Candidate Dwight Eisenhower, contributed heavily to Ike's campaign chest. After the election, on Dulles' recommendation, Dillon got an impressive spoil of victory: the ambassadorship to Paris...
Forces in Politics. The statewide jaunts served him well when he wandered into politics; everybody in Arizona, it seems, has known Barry Goldwater since way back when. In 1930, he casually joined the Republican Party and even won a post as precinct committeeman, although the G.O.P. in prewar Arizona seemed to have little future. Largely because early settlers came from Democratic Texas and the Deep South, Arizona grew up as a one-party state; after 1945, new emigrants from the Republican Midwest cut the Democratic lead from the traditional 12-1 ratio to about 4-1. But Goldwater...
...Dinner portrayed a porcupine in the shape of a man. un mistakably Woollcott with more than a few quills of Kaufman; and Of Thee I, Sing, a spoof that could teach a few mocking lessons to the Mort Sahl generation created the unforgettable Throttlebottom as well as the national committeeman who sold Rhode Island ("Nobody missed...