Word: committeeman
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Chairman Rollin McNitt, a needle-nosed lawyer who was once a Republican, began with a demand that each committeeman sign a pledge dedicating all his 1948 campaign work to the nominees of the Democratic Party, forsaking all others. It was high time, snorted Rollin McNitt, that Wallace supporters, "either fish or cut bait." They had no business backing a third-party candidate in California's Democratic primary...
Others were much less inclined to be charitable. Said Indiana's Democratic National Committeeman Frank McHale: "It's a good riddance. He is a much confused man and always had his thingamajigs mixed up with his whatchamacallits. I nominate for his running mate John L. Lewis and then we will have all of them on the same side of the street...
Gathered around their big, green-topped table, they ganged up on the committee report. Chairman Allen was frankly against any aid at all for what one committeeman called Europe's "armies of mendicants and loafers...
...baby elected No. 1 at a baby show. Obviously, no bad player would make All-America. The difficulty, except in a few obvious choices, was in distinguishing among the good, and arbitrarily conferring greatness on a few. The campaigning was already about over. Said one All-America committeeman last week: "If a guy isn't on everyone's tongue after the first six games, then...
...Britain," said one committeeman, "is disintegrating in the greatest order ever displayed, and France is recovering in the greatest chaos imaginable." The key to Britain's recovery was production of coal, and in that effort Britain had fallen flat. Miners, in fear of mechanization, clung to old methods, persisted in working the short week because more than half their extra day's pay would have to go to the Government in taxes...