Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motor scooters will be furnished for union committeemen...
...Britain's Royal Academy were glumly having plum cake and tea to fortify themselves to go on judging the 9,944 entries for the yearly summer painting exhibition. By such reserved accolades as a grunt, a gently lifted hand and a muttered "Not too bad, what?" the committeemen had given a number of paintings the stature of D for doubtful, while marking the others X for rejected. Suddenly Academy President Charles Wheeler looked at a painting, put down his cup, summoned other committeemen to inspect the work "at once." To a man, they gave the painting...
Blunted Hatchet. To the Ways and Means Committeemen, Witness Weeks pointed out that the U.S. sells abroad 9% of all the movable goods it produces, that U.S. exports in 1957 added up to $19.5 billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries...
...long weekend vacation. With the special messages on education ($1 billion over four years to step up U.S. education in the satellite age) and on reciprocal trade (see Foreign Trade) dispatched to Congress, the only big hurdle was a Friday-morning breakfast speech to the Republican national committeemen. Taking the hurdle in stride, the President got off the kind of no-clichés-barred political pep talk GOPoliticians wish he had delivered the previous week in Chicago, where he went through a nationally televised twelve minutes without once directly calling for a Republican Congress this fall. "We all know...
...that the Republicans just about obliterated the Democratic Party . . . Does the White House think it can pass its program without Democratic votes?" But mingled with criticism there was plenty of praise, especially from the Republican pros. In one day Meade Alcorn got 18 pro-Adams telephone calls from national committeemen and state chairmen. And Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson, ordinarily a lukewarm supporter of Sherman Adams, was suddenly on fire. Said he: "It was the best speech of them all. We would like to use Adams any time we could...