Word: committeemen
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...seven-man citizens' committee. At the first, tense meeting, between midnight and 3 a.m., the convicts were polite but adamant. They faced the com mittee across a table, set up with a pad and pencil as if for a board-of-directors meeting. They served coffee to the committeemen, talked at length of their hopeless futures, the rigid Massachusetts penal code, the miserable living conditions in Cherry Hill (one of the committeemen, Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, was shut for a few min utes in one of the granite solitary cells...
Storey and fellow committeemen declined to comment on other possible entertainers besides saying that a comedian and probably a vocalist might also perform. Tom Lumbard, publicity chairman, stated that the committee wanted "quality, not crudity," but promised a show that no critic, even a burlesque fan "will be dissatisfied with...
This Is War. Kennelly reacted to the county committee's endorsement of Daley last week by announcing that he would run in the primary as an independent and by declaring war on the party bosses. In rapid order, Kennelly: 1) demanded the resignations of five ward committeemen with city jobs who had voted against him at the county meeting, 2) threatened to cut off the lucrative insurance and bonding business that the city does with some machine Democrats, 3) promised to fire all city employees (not covered by civil service) who work against him in the election, 4) stopped...
...Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...
...Rayburn arrived late at the meeting, found Butler in the lead, and urged that the election be postponed for two months. DeSapio, Arvey, Lawrence & Co. applauded this suggestion. But the committeemen, feeling their oats, resented it and pressed for a vote...