Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference, explained Representative George Mahon, reflected the conviction of the committeemen that "the only force under heaven that can now deliver the quick and devastating blow is the United States Air Force." Said Mahon: "We put the emphasis of air power in this bill...
During the past year, Withrop has emerged as a strong force in the politic- ian-breeding field, supplying two out of three Class of 1949 marchals and four out of ten permanent committeemen. Its more internationally-minded members have entertained visiting firemen in quantity from Amsterdam and other faraway places, and rumors of a resident Eskimo, through probably exaggerated, are not entirely unfounded in fact...
There was some doubt after first tabulations as to who would be the tenth committeemen. A recount was held, however, and Broido's four-vote lead over Alfred J. Klingel was upheld...
...Finally added up the bill for White House repairs: $5,400,000 to construct a fireproof, steel & concrete interior which would stand on its own foundations inside the existing exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
...Smoker committeemen have pieced together a program which they hope will make the staid, marble Civil War heroes who line Memorial Hall blink...