Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permitted to buy anything without first getting the approval of a Councilman in charge of spending. This "business manager" would be acquainted with comparative rates of printers and other businessmen and would be in a position to drive a much better bargain for the Council than the inadequately informed committeemen who have dealt with such matters in the past...
...Then the committeemen adjourned for a few weeks. But that wasn't the end of it. The Navy promptly suspended Worth, and ordered a court of inquiry to find out just how many other Navymen had helped him to put his statement together. The Navy board would have company. Carl Vinson and Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan also promised that they would get to the bottom of Cedric Worth's undercover campaign against the Air Force and the Administration. Most committee members believed that Bureaucrat Worth could not have done it without a lot of help from Navy...
...Republican Convention all over again-the same faces, the same factions-only this time the forces of Thomas E. Dewey, so cockily in control at Philadelphia, were in retreat. One hundred and two Republican national committeemen had gathered in Washington's Shoreham Hotel to choose a new party chairman...
...nobody wanted unity on Scott's terms, and for the moment, the committeemen were less interested in the Democrats than they were in the control of their own party. The old, uneasy Taft-Stassen alliance of the Philadelphia days had settled well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa...
...time Bradley had finished, Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...