Word: committeeman
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...couldn't. With beef at 152% of parity, asked one newsman, how could the meatmen complain about the rollback ordered by Di Salle? President Allan Kline of the American Farm Bureau Federation answered the question with a ten-minute dissertation on the American way of life. Cried Agriculture Committeeman Cooley, one of the guests: "You gentlemen have failed to answer a single question put to you by the press." Added he on the floor of the House next day: "They were . . . woefully weak...
...freely admitted that he had not done much to earn some of these fees, but he stoutly denied that his friends in the White House had ever helped him. One exception, he recalled, was a meeting he arranged between a group of pro-Truman Mississippians, headed by state National Committeeman Clarence S. Hood Jr., and Donald S. Dawson. As a result of the meeting, the Mississippians were eventually placed in charge of dispensing federal patronage in the state of Mississippi-until they were kicked out two months ago after an investigation into federal job-selling...
...politicos thought differently, and bluntly told him so on election night. "The Democratic organization did it for you, Mr. Mayor," cried out beefy Al Horan, Cook County committeeman and bailiff of the municipal court, as Kennelly was busy taking bows. "You can thank the party. I gave you 20,000 votes this afternoon in the 29th Ward. The West Side did it, Mr. Mayor. . . Where's Arvey?" Bald little Jake Arvey, until recently boss of the Cook County machine, pushed forward. Cried Horan: "Here's the greatest little Democrat in Chicago...
...potent executive committee, he has only one vote on it. Fluent and articulate, he must sometimes use all of his persuasiveness to win a majority to his side. Like the Supreme Court, the committee sometimes splits 5 to 4, and heated arguments develop. When they do, says one committeeman, "Crawford usually grabs the ball and starts talking. He's an excellent filibusterer." When tempers subside, Greenewalt steers the talk to some new problem, brings up the contested one later...
...committee had few questions for either speaker, but it came to life at the start of the second act, the hearings on the opposition to the bill. First was a Congregational minister. "I'm a Congregationalist myself," a committeeman told him, "so I can talk to you man to man." Three other representatives went on record that they, too, were Congregationalists...