Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon Secretary Early recalled this statement as hasty, said that Works Projects Commissioner F. C. Harrington would instead present the situation informally to House committeemen...
...Corps. This once ramshackle service has expanded into an effective, offensive fighting arm, with planes so fast (over 400 m.p.h.) that France and England want to grab the newest ones at factory gates. Last week General Marshall, Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson convinced Congressional committeemen that the Allies should be allowed to do so. Wartime business, said they, has already upped U. S. production capacity from 6,000 to 17,000 planes per year, should soon have it up to 30,000. Result: the U. S. Air Corps can safely do without 2,100 reserve...
Headed by Dr. Francis Underhill, then Dean of Rochester, now Bishop of Bath & Wells, the committee took testimony from psychic researchers, both believers and skeptics. Some committeemen secretly attended séances. Nine months ago the committee had its report ready. To the great dismay not only of His Grace of Canterbury but of his colleague the Archbishop of York, the report was not unfavorable to Spiritualism. That, at least, was the conclusion Spiritualists drew when it became known last month that the report had been suppressed. Said Fred Hawken, secretary of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association: "I am confident that...
...Hear from and (barring miracles) vote more money to the Dies Committee, whose Red-finding Chairman Martin Dies last week was in a knockdown fight with minority committeemen. Issue: whether to include Franklin Roosevelt in the committee's wondrous list of Communist tools...