Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said a White House aide last week: "We're right at the brink-you'll pardon the expression-of going over the debt limit. We're within a very small margin now, and have a very small cash balance." Treasury Secretary Anderson has assured congressional finance committeemen that he can hold out until Congress reconvenes next month. Capitol Hill, in turn, believes that, after appropriate howls of anguish, Congress will approve the increase rather than cut domestic programs in an election year...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15--Vincent Jimmy Squillante, alleged overlord of a 50-million-dollar a year trash collecting industry, stepped behind the Fifth Amendment today when questioned before a Senate investigating committee. Committeemen said they planned to explore later whether the Mafia is involved in the giant Teamsters Union "generally" and is trying to take over the country...
...always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five-sided doghouse," upset the military convention of equating rank with intelligence by remarking: "I haven't noticed it made a man any smarter to put another star on his shoulder...
...made several slurs on Harvard during school committee meetings last year. In the minds of these men, the outcry against the appointments last year was organized by the Cambridge Civic Association, a good-government seeking organization, as a political maneuver to malign the motives of the "independent" school committeemen...
...motives. It saw in the action of the majority members of the school committee a serious threat to the already weak Cambridge school system, and spurred on the other civic groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...