Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred C. Butterfield, C. Colmery Gibson, Arnett McKennan, and Leavitt S. White, other Album committeemen elected by their classmates two weeks ago, will assume their respective stations on the Board next week...
Obviously impressed, Senate Committeemen questioned Mr. May eagerly, got a startling opinion. Fact was, said he, that with continuing business improvements the Treasury should get all the additional revenue it required from present taxes. Hence, came his parting shot, there was no need for a new tax bill...
...whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced at the 40-odd members present, announced counts of 108, 102, 117.* Three perfecting amendments offered by Democratic Ways & Means Committeemen were swiftly adopted, two by the Republican opposition were just as swiftly voted down. Total time for reading and amending the 236-page bill: 2 hr. 46 min. Next day 359 bewildered Representatives appeared to vote, passed the bill by a thumping...
...attempt to correct the more flagrant abuses of the system. Much of the inefficiency of Senior elections in the past has been due to the multiplicity of polling-places, and one central station for all voting should be established. This could be watched over efficiently by the two Junior committeemen, and the dangers previously encountered in scattered voting would be almost nullified...
Chief witnesses for the defense were Silverman's onetime potent Washington lawyer-lobbyists: Ralph Thomas O'Neil, onetime (1930-31) National Commander of the American Legion; Robert Jackson of New Hampshire and Arthur Mullen of Nebraska, both Democratic National Committeemen until President Roosevelt objected to mixing politics and lobbying (TIME, Jan. 29; March 26, 1934). All three testified that as representatives of Silverman they had dealt chiefly with the Assistant Secretary of War, had been shown no favors by Colonel McMullen...