Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Moses hastened to Washington. He was told he might be something called Director of the Service of Plan and Policy. He returned to Manhattan thinking that he was Chairman Work's practical-political advisor and virtually his peer. But last week, at a Manhattan meeting of National Committeemen from the New England and Middle Atlantic States, Senator Moses found that Dr. Work still intended to control the entire campaign from headquarters at Washington; that he and not Senator Moses would preside at Eastern advisory meetings. Senator Moses gave way to thoroughgoing irritation. "I am not a Mahomet...
Another caller was President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania R. R., one of the few National Committeemen who strongly opposed the Hoover nomination before it happened. Committeeman Atterbury seemed adequately Hooverized last week...
Heading a contested South Carolina delegation was National Committeeman Joseph W. ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert, whose illkempt figure (he prefers no cravat, shaves seldom) is a recurrent feature at G. O. P. Conventions. From Georgia and Mississippi, respectively, came the two Negro National Committeemen, Benjamin Jefferson Davis and Perry W. Howard...
...list of Chairman Storey's committeemen is formidable: Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Patrick Edward Crowley for the New York Central; Charles Donnelly for the Northern Pacific; Laurence Aloysius Downs for the Illinois Central; Carl Raymond Gray for the Union Pacific; Edward Jones Pearson for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Bird M. Robinson for the American Short Lines Association...
...heels of President Coolidge and Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone (see CRIME), the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor last week repaired to Miami, Fla. The committeemen put their heads together, bloody but unbowed, to decide what they would ask Politics to do for Labor this year. Time was no object at their sessions and during the week only one major demand was decided upon, that being a demand already outlined at the A. F. of L. Convention last autumn in Los Angeles, namely, for a Volstead Act amendment to permit 2.75% beer...