Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just wait 'til '48" said the slogan on the menu. But Republican National Committeemen, meeting in Washington's Statler Hotel for their first victory dinner in 18 years, could hardly be expected to do that...
Massachusetts' Joe Martin, soon to be Speaker of the House, mumbled a few words about not doing "any gloating." But the committeemen hardly listened; they were there to celebrate and to contemplate the future-which looked unmistakably rosy...
...country had asked for a change, and some pretty drastic changes were in the making. Republican leaders interpreted the people's angry anti-Administration vote as an enthusiastic pro-Republican vote as well. Last week, as G.O.P. steering committeemen bustled around Washington, a lot of campaign promises and as many threats began to assume solid shape...
With a brisk rubbing of Republican hands and some licking of chops, the new congressional bosses got down to work. Thursday morning, House and Senate steering committees met. Thursday afternoon, Congressman Joe Martin and Senator Bob Taft made statements to the press. Thursday evening, House and Senate committeemen dined at the Carlton and chewed the fat. Friday morning, New York's busy, noisy John Taber, who will head the Appropriations Committee, met the press. The same morning, Taft and the Senate steering committee went into another conference. Friday noon, all hands got together at lunch. Friday afternoon, Senators huddled...
Preparing for the convention in Chicago late in December to draft plans for the organization of a United States Union of Students along lines of the international Union, Cater recommended to the 15 Council Committeemen that a sub-committee should immediately be formed to draw up tentative plans for a Constitution of the national Union...