Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee composed of an honorary chairman, two vice chairmen, a secretary, 52 honorary vice chairmen and 56 plain committeemen was formed last week to safeguard the Freedom of the Press. It was created under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and made public at a meeting of newsmen and Foundation leaders aboard the S. S. He de France in dock at Manhattan. By telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World...
...Chairman: Gen. John Joseph Pershing. Executive chairman: onetime U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. Treasurer: U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Other committeemen: Bishop of Washington James Edward Freeman, Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Uavison, Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr., Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, etc., etc. † The cathedral received $250,000 from the will of the late Banker George Fisher Baker, filed last week...
...council meetings which had to be attended on the nights that reports fell due, to the detriment of reports, are things of the past to the graduate. They are pleasant memories, perhaps, if the student happens to fancy brilliant harangues as to the merit of his fellows as dance-committeemen. But it is reasonable to expect the acquisition of more than pleasant memories from the men who are spending four important years of their lives as dependents on society...
...sold; 2) savings necessary for business recovery would be absorbed otherwise; 3) "we should end worse off than we began." Unlike his associates, however, Democrat Young favored a compromise, favored upping the loan value of service certificates (now 22½%) for the benefit of really needy cases. The Republican committeemen were thoroughly startled to hear a proposal so out of tune with the other songs of Big Business...
...that the flurry over the inconsistencies of the Wickersham commission report has quelled it is not wholly impossible to grasp a moment for discussion of the prohibition question itself. Little enlightenment could be found in the decision of Wickersham and his ten committeemen with the exception of emphasis on the possibilities of outward disagreement of persons who attempt to solve the problem...