Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More detailed planning for the Jubilee is being undertaken by various committee members before the next meeting tomorrow night. A finance committee composed of John D. Ingram '50, Don S. Sturgill '50 and Mortimer D. Hull '50 will draw up a budget for the weekend, and other committeemen are to investigate the Housing situation in Boston, sign a band for the dance, and arrange the activities for the rest of the weekend...
House and Union committeemen handling the balloting said last night that voters may choose up to ten names, with election on a straight numerical basis...
Instead of Tea. Thursday afternoon, in this atmosphere, T.V. invited all 30 members of the standing committee of the People's Political Council to the Executive Yuan for tea. But the implacable Fu led 17 fellow committeemen in a boycott of the Premier's party. Word went round that T.V. would have a rough time at the upcoming Legislative Yuan...
...strike committee last week demanded a wage boost from $12 to $20 a month, an increase in clothing allowances from $40 to $48 a year. The boss said no. When the committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...
Appropriations Committeemen considered the President's budget, which had "staggered" Chairman John Taber of New York. Illinois' Everett Dirksen lectured his colleagues: "You will get no credit either in your constituency or in heaven for having wasted money...