Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Energetic Winthrop House Dance Committeemen organized a shovel brigade yesterday to combat the rising tide of water and slush and clear a parking space for the Friday evening dance...
...hear a committee which has been investigating the college administration. A majority report, signed by twelve members, charged that the president "lacks the human qualities necessary to achieve the widespread confidence of his faculty and his student body and to provide genuinely inspired, resourceful and socially imaginative leadership." Four committeemen supported the president, laid student agitation to a radical minority. For four hours the alumni debated. Shortly after midnight they adopted the majority report by a vote of 519 to 217, recommended not that Dr. Robinson be dismissed, but that administration of undergraduate affairs be placed in other hands...
...except Committeemen Hamilton and Requa, officially discreet, departed with puffs for the Landon boom. To the growing picture of Governor Landon as a nickel-betting, budget-balancing Great Economizer, Republican Allen last week added his dab: "In my judgment, the time has come again for a stingy man to be President of the U. S. Governor Alf M. Landon is a stingy...
...bewhiskered William Brown Bell, who is currently dunning his friends for Republican campaign funds (TIME, Dec. 2). Bonged Mr. Bell, after dissecting the Townsend Plan: "Are we all crazy?" President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. urged his fellow industrialists to turn the heat on local Republican committeemen to keep the G.O.P. "from becoming more liberal; meaning more radical." Conspicuous at the banquet board as he passed the olives was the handsome, flowing stock of Mohawk Carpet Mills Chairman George W. McNeir (see cut). Other business Congressmen were du Pont's President Lammot du Pont; Atwater Kent...
Thus last week did Republican National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher describe the 16 archfoes of the New Deal whom he had picked as National Finance Committeemen to fill the GOPot for 1936. Great indeed was their stake in what Chairman Fletcher called "the American system." Among the 16 were...