Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Party's professionals in the field as his reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below the final results (Hurja said 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt; result: 523). Mr. Hurja afterwards left the New Deal, lost his power to check with precinct committeemen. 2) Mr. Hurja, as a sideline, owns the Edward J. Wall poll, which last week showed Roosevelt ahead in popular vote...
...Export in the Capitol corridors. (The Navy has stood aside to let Export have its three big warlike Sikorskys in the spring.) That was little consolation. Export must await another deficiency appropriation (probably until next year) before trying again. For the turndown of what looked like a sure thing, committeemen gave no official explanation, Pan Am was as silent as a catful of canaries...
Richard W. Palmer '42 will head the committee for the first Elephant dance of the year this Saturday night after the Michigan game. Chappie Arnold, a regular star of Dartmouth Carnivals and a veteran of Smith, Amherst; and Williams weekends will provide the music. Other committeemen, include William H. Young, Jr. '42, John A. Ordway 2nd '42, Joshua B. Burnette '41, and Homer C. Wick...
...both British and U. S. factories. He concentrated, like Hermann Göring, on a few proved types. With recalcitrant manufacturers he used what an assistant called "spur and whip, and sometimes a bag of oats." Every manufacturer found himself accountable to one of Lord Beaverbrook's committeemen, at first weekly, then once...
...neither his integrity nor his capacity for non-political thinking. They worried chiefly about the influence of $900,000,000 of public money which Nominee Wallace's agencies will distribute to farmers this fiscal year, plus the well-known fact that Mr. Wallace's county and community committeemen were potent factors in the 1936 Presidential campaign. Honest, sometimes naive Henry Wallace brushed these considerations aside with the statement that they did not exist. Said he in Des Moines...