Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson and ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt...
...While the committeemen listened dutifully to Candidate Kennelly's acceptance speech, they thought about his record. He had started out as a $2-a-week Marshall Field employe, had risen to the top of Allied Van Lines, Inc. and of the Werner-Kennelly warehouse company to boot. He had slugged away at civic reform as a member of the police-badgering Chicago Crime Commission, had worked hard during the war for the Red Cross and Army relief...
Martin Kennelly pulled no punches. He reminded the committeemen (who needed no reminding) that he had successfully fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 when he backed Henry Horner for the governorship; that he had fought Kelly again, though unsuccessfully, when he boomed Tom Courtney for the mayor's seat in 1939. He had not changed a bit, he said. He was going to go ahead on his own; if his ideas clashed with the machine, the machine would have to yield...
...committeemen applauded with great heartiness. Boss Arvey, they knew, would still control the mass of minor patronage. But an era was ended. The symbol of that era was Ed Kelly, the onetime sanitary engineer, the confirmed tormenter of the English language, the kingcog of a ruthless machine which kept Democrats in power in Chicago and Washington...
...FEPC bill and things like that. I know they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little doubt that a big percentage of the committeemen thought Tom Dewey was their boy.* No committeeman, Tom Dewey was not at the dinner; he was returning from a four weeks' vacation at Sea Island, and Miami, where he wrenched his shoul der playing golf...