Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democracy, says Joe Lee, "is a device for governing ourselves by the use of money." If democracy is to survive, children must study the elements of economics. He persuaded his fellow school committeemen to try his plan. Last February, in Boston's 42 intermediate schools, some 7,000 pupils began to learn the meaning of consumption (seventh grade), production (eighth), conservation, and industrial relations (ninth). A more advanced course for tenth-grade (second year high school) students will start next year...
When the balloons, littered beer cans and mangled bodies had all been swept up from Mem Hall floors this morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops for all time. Entertainment--loud, raucous, spicy entertainment--was the bill of fare, and avid Freshmen gobbled their dish in glee. The Jones Brothers cleared the way for the evening's queens with a knowing, "now we understand each other, gentlemen." Although stripped of her bubbles and feathers. Sally Rand...
...molding the policy of the committee, the Council must make certain that it really does represent the undergraduates, and in the long run this can be achieved only by democratic selection of committeemen. In the short run the committee, faced with the budget cut question, may achieve somewhat broader representation by enlisting the aid of PBK and the HSU's Committee to Advance Harvard Education; in doing so it will also avoid duplication of effort and working at cross purposes...
...first step in the launching of the annual Freshman Smoker and Jubilee will be taken tonight at 7:15 o'clock when all those who aspire for a position on the Smoker-Jubilee committees meet to apply for nomination. The final choice of ten committeemen rests with the entire Freshman class, which will have a chance to vote its favorites into office next Wednesday...
Washington was used to not noticing Christy Sullivan. In all his years in Congress, Christy had never made a speech. He attended few sessions, left the actual running of the Tammany bloc in Congress to shrewd, pugnacious Tom Cullen of Brooklyn. Ways & Means Committeemen, among whom hew:as third-ranking member, got used to seeing Christy lean over to Cullen, whisper: "Which way do I vote on this...