Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit; at his left, Senator Pat Harrison, vice chairman...
...been pounding away in speeches and articles for adoption in advance of a plan to mobilize the entire nation when war comes again. In 1935 a bill embodying his ideas was passed by the House, died in the Senate because North Dakota's Nye and his Munitions Committeemen wanted other terms. Last week, day after the House and Senate conferees agreed on the Neutrality Bill, the House Military Affairs Committee put Mr. Baruch's scheme back in circulation by agreeing to report out a new Mobilization Bill...
Leverett House dance committeemen received a telegram from Life last night, "Interested", in Thursday's Bunny dance...
...help run things in the enlarged quarters three names have been added to the list of committeemen, Victor Francis, Ernest S. Merrill, Jr., and Chalmers B. Wood...
...President's vastly heartened Opposition. Senator Burke promptly proclaimed that he would redraft his amendment to include Dean Smith's staggered retirement system and uniform State conventions. Texas' Tom Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts were two Judiciary Committeemen, Kentucky's Logan and New Mexico's Hatch, who had been leaning reluctantly toward the President's Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole hog for the Smith plan. Senator...