Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditure of $25,250,000 for new aircraft. Thus by 1941 the force should have 2,149 planes, with the assurance of the $34,000,000 required to replace 340 annually outmoded planes, 130-odd washed out by crashes each year. Last week 13 militantly liberal House Military Affairs Committeemen visited happy General Andrews, comfortingly indicated that they think the Air Corps worthy of its hire...
...Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria and started squabbling...
...going concerns" and not piecemeal or at distress rates. But the terms, suggested equally shrewd Mr. Willkie, should be set by an independent committee, in view "of the recent newspaper reports of a diversity of opinion as to policy within the TVA." Mr. Willkie's suggestions for committeemen: President Clarence A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin, President Karl Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter...
Meanwhile Committeemen issued a statement in which they said that, although they had hoped that the council would hold up the nominations for the Second Senior election, they would accept these nominations as "faits accomplis...
Names. The embattled committeemen and committeewomen sought to solve their problem soothingly with Names. Those bruited outside the meeting, ranging in age and political experience from 35-year-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh to Illinois' 76-year-old ex-Governor Frank Orren Lowden, were so numerous that the committee decided to pick some 150 instead of 100 philosophers...