Word: committeemen
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...Meanwhile he was asking the Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees of both Houses of Congress to come to Washington. To see Europe through the winter, the President estimated that the U.S. would have to dig up $580 million. How the U.S. did it, he would leave up to the committeemen...
There is no provision for filing the places of permanent committeemen who die, he said, adding that "no one in the University knows who is on the class committee." After the Class of 1947 elections, the top three men in the balloting were declared marshals whereas, Weld asserted, there is evidence that tradition demands separate elections for the three marshal posts...
...well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket green, was a roped enclosure with some 200 chairs. There sat the remainder of the party committeemen, their families, and others of the locally privileged...
Careful, conscientious Christian Herter discouraged committeemen from taking their wives, told them to pack no dinner clothes, be prepared on their return to answer a stiff and lengthy questionnaire. Herter's goal, enthusiastically seconded by Secretary of State George Marshall: to break down old prejudices and educate key personnel of the House...
Miracle Man Kaiser had had a little more trouble selling that scheme. The Army & Navy were against it. They needed scarce materials and technicians for their standard combat and transport craft. Planemaker Grover Loening told committeemen how, as a representative of WPB, he looked over Kaiser's plan and reached the same conclusion as the military men. WPB's aviation experts figured Henry Kaiser didn't know an airplane from a Sherman tank and that his promise to get the first model into the air within 20 months only proved...