Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in January, 1944, the Class of '46 elected their class committee. It was a strange time to hold an election because roughly three quarters of the class was away in service, and it is even stranger that the results still stand. The committeemen were neither actually nor fairly elected, so there is no reason why they should retain their posts...
...kindling was laid a month ago by a group of western national committeemen, who wanted Democratic headquarters to take the lead in luring Justice Douglas out of his marble building. It was touched off last week by Washington Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Their story, which went scrupulously un-denied, said that the Big Bosses-New York's Ed Flynn, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Jake Arvey, New Jersey's Frank Hague, et al.-had agreed on Douglas and had sent word to him that he could have the No. 2 spot if he wanted it. Justice...
When a heckler interrupted Scully on a point of order, Scully snarled: "Sit down, you mug!" The heckler kept clamoring. Scully calmly eased himself to within a few feet of him, hoisted up his right crutch and whacked him on the shoulder. That about ended the meeting. The committeemen agreed that they would support the regular Democratic nominees after the state's primary on June 1. But until then, Wallace supporters were free to wreak whatever havoc they could...
...first Freshman Smoker committeemen since the war found their entertainment program on firm ground last night as the Student Council voted a fifty-fifty grant-loan of $100 at a meeting in Phillips Brooks House...
...flurried, waning minutes of the session, the Senate Appropriations Committee repaired some of John Taber's ax-work, boosting interim aid to $570 million, occupation expenses to the original $490 million. When the bill went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China...