Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
When school committeemen in Somerville, Mass, read the story last week and saw the picture that illustrated it, they angrily suppressed that issue of the Junior Red Cross News, and all Junior Red Cross activities in Somerville.* The pen-&-ink drawing of Rafael, Juanita and the priest was captioned: "Rafael and Juanita stood before the priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River...
Meanwhile a sudden pall had settled on the convention. By law the roll had to be called of the 32,075 county committeemen authorized to make the nomination...
...days after the Garden meeting less than half of the city's 8,747 Republican committeemen convened in Mecca Temple, nominated a sag-jowled, 71-year-old Brooklyn realtor named Lewis Humphrey Pounds. In 1924 Mr. Pounds had been elected State Treasurer after he had been awakened from a sound sleep and told he was being run for office. He dislikes nothing so much as vaudeville jokes at Brooklyn's expense. A sacrifice offering to Tammany, he took the Republican nomination only after it had been rejected by better known G. O. Partisans who saw no reason...
Meanwhile at Munich slightly potbellied "Handsome Adolf" Hitler stroked his tuft of brown mustache, took the salutes of his campaign committeemen who cheered themselves hoarse, then gravely launched his campaign: "There are two possibilities: either to give or to deny...