Word: committeeman
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...austerely furnished side office Carmine De Sapio held forth in his role of Democratic national committeeman. Talking by telephone to a political colleague, De Sapio's voice was rasping, his diction marked by such New York pronouns as "dese" and "dem." Hanging up the phone, he picked up a plump tangerine from his desk and tossed it to a political lieutenant, who peeled it and offered half to De Sapio. When he spoke to his visitors, De Sapio's voice changed. His tone was soft, his diction near-faultless. He told of his appointment as secretary of state...
...Hoosiers, notably Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, whose team Butler boosts devotedly, and ex-Governor Henry Schricker (1941-45, 1949-53), whom Butler served as a political troubleshooter. Two years ago, Butler unseated burly Frank McHale, Indiana Democratic boss for 15 years, as the state's national committeeman. To contrast him with McHale, Indianans call lank (5 ft. u^ in., 156 Ibs.) Paul Butler "the thin...
Political Career: Campaigned for Harding at 12, headed a local finance committee in the Coolidge campaign at 16, elected to the Republican State Central Committee at 22, became California's youngest assemblyman at 24, its youngest state senator at 26, the youngest Republican National Committeeman at 30, and, at 33, the Republican National Committee's youngest Executive Committee chairman ever. In 1945, Governor Earl Warren, who got his political start from old Joe Knowland, appointed Joe's son Billy to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Hiram Johnson. The news first reached Major Knowland...
...third candidate was Indiana Committeeman Paul M. (for Mulholland) Butler, a 49-year-old South Bend attorney, a faithful Stevenson backer, and a long-time enemy of Truman's friend, former National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney. Like DiSalle, Finnegan, and all Democratic chairmen since 1928, Butler is a Roman Catholic...
...grandchildren) at his Long Island home for his 70th birthday party, the unblinking beacon of U.S. Socialism, Norman Thomas, loosed a flood of thoughts and recollections for veteran New York Timesman A. H. Raskin. No longer a perennial also-ran (six defeats) for the U.S. presidency, roving Lecturer-Writer-Committeeman Thomas had lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy is like a reluctant knight going out to engage the dragon...