Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denham might find it hard to get along with some of his board members. One of the new appointees was Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, a down-the-line New Dealer to whom three G.O.P. committeemen strongly objected. The other was New York's J. Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms...
Last week, early passers-by on the Puebla road came upon the bodies of the six committeemen. Like the other five, Mayor Rodríguez had been shot six times. It might have been better for him if he had carried...
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...vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last was out in the open...
General Marshall protested that he needed more time, that he wanted to be sure no injustice was done. Said the committeemen: if there is any doubt at all, the employee should be fired. "It is not necessary to prosecute," insisted Committee Chairman Styles Bridges. "But get them out of the key spots in this Government. That is what we want...