Word: committeemen
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...Equals. George Marshall's last shot was right on the target. It bore in upon the committeemen that the old Army-Navy game was still being played. The two services had separate approaches to separate committees of the House and Senate,.for separate funds to achieve overlapping objectives...
With each new mail delivery, Congressmen got more jittery. The angry letters, pouring in last week from the folks at home and the boys abroad, were all but unanimous: speed up demobilization, or else. Sweating under the mounting pressure, Senate Military Affairs Committeemen talked nervously of "passing a bill." When General MacArthur, in Tokyo, guesstimated he could police Japan with 200,000 men (see INTERNATIONAL), the pot boiled...
Assembly would meet, and what it would do. Despite the hurry-up efforts of Edward R. Stettinius Jr., the committeemen sometimes haggled for hours over the inclusion, omission or interpretation of a single word...
...Yale committeemen declared that a university which fails to promote a vigorous religious life among its students is shirking one of its major responsibilities. The committee proposed that Yale's Department of Religion, which now offers only four courses, taught by instructors from other departments, be enlarged. As a starter, the department might employ full-time instructors in psychology and the history of Christianity. Eventually it should include an anthropologist, a historian, a linguist, specialists in non-Christian religions and in the philosophy of religion...
...private firms. Since the sale, the Committee has paid off $600,000 on the purchase. It hopes to save another $324,000 yearly by calling in the $7,452,300 in preferred stock, which pays dividends of 6% and 7%, replace it with bonds paying 2½% interest. Committeemen were sure that Boren had been needled into his blast by 1) Omahans who still oppose public ownership, 2) preferred stockholders who hate to give up their well paying investment. Actually, Omaha is well pleased with...