Word: committeemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most of the committeemen expected to elect the official host, Secretary Stettinius, permanent president of the conference. Anthony Eden made the routine nomination. Curt and strained, Molotov rose and objected. The conference, he said, should have four presidents, one for each of the sponsoring powers (the U.S., Russia, Britain. China); each of the presidents should take his turn with the gavel, and together they should control all the business of the conference. The delegation heads who made up the steering committee heard this proposal with successive disbelief, dismay, anger: it seemed to them to be a deliberate, pointless affront...
...rotate the conference presidency, make Stettinius permanent chairman of the potent steering and executive committees. Molotov seemed to agree, then insisted that only the four-way split of the conference presidency be announced that day. Everything was put over until the next day. Thoroughly incensed at Molotov, the committeemen filed...
Meanwhile, the Briggs Manufacturing Co. found the time ripe for firing seven union shop stewards and committeemen at their Mack Avenue plant. The men were accused of fomenting 57 strikes at the Briggs plant. Immediately, 5,800 Briggs employes walked out, started the company's 161st wartime strike. The company fired eight more union men. The union local voted to stay out until the dis charged men were rehired. As the U.A.W.'s harried International officers sought to smooth things over, they were picketed by Briggs strikers. The pickets gathered under an office occupied by George Addes...
Said he, in effect: the overall increase in the cost of living from January 1941 to September 1944 is 29-30%-but organized labor is generally better off now than in 1941. Further, Chairman Davis reported, the BLS index figures were not far wrong. Promptly, loud dissents came from Committeemen Thomas and Meany...
...Dewey had bridged the gap characteristically, organizing, organizing, organizing. Republican leaders, Senators, Congressmen, committeemen came to Albany in droves, state by state. Newsmen who covered him were bored to tears, but Republicans everywhere, although privately gloomy about his chances, were heartened by the stiffness of his mustached upper lip and cheered by his obvious determination to mobilize all the resources of the resurgent Republican Party...