Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stone saw that theatrical caper break the 'choreographed' confrontations of Committeemen and Communists that punctuated his own haunted Fifties," Kopkind writes. "By refusing to dance the part of fearful, trembling witness, Rubin and his troupe helped destroy an all-too-hallowed set piece...
...state bureaucracy and local party organizations that few other New York pols can match. "Rockefeller had a fleeting idea of who all the county chairmen were," says one Wilson associate, "but Malcolm is on a first-name basis with most of the county leaders and the state committeemen, and many of the party workers." Wilson's superb party connections, combined with the generous amounts of political patronage that he can dispense as Governor, give him an inside track for the gubernatorial nomination, especially now that Duryea, his chief potential opponent, is in legal trouble. But the bland Wilson...
...Ohio, where the G.O.P. is having trouble finding local committeemen for the first time in memory, no credible candidate has come forward to run for the Senate seat that is expected to be vacated by William B. Saxbe...
Despite personal intimidation--rocks through windows of School Committeemen's homes, obscene 4 a.m. phone calls, both threatened and real physical violence O children of "reform" organizers and public intimidation trumped-up legal battles and marathon live TV coverage of the circus-like hearing preliminary to the vote to resume the search for a new superintendent--the majority persevered and finally brought Alflorence Cheatham to Cambridge...
...insisted: "Duplication in this case can do nothing but good." Shaw quit. As for Ramey, Ray simply did not back his reappointment to the commission when his term expired in June. These acts outraged some members of the Joint Committee when Ray presented them as fails accomplis. But other committeemen were pleased by her independence. "Dixy Lee does what she believes in, and has brought a whole new vitality to the AEC," says Washington Representative Mike McCormack. Missouri Senator Stuart Symington told her: "Stick by your guns, young lady...