Word: committeemen
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Among the more interesting reports was the one on the aircraft industry--by coincidence in both companies. Under the guise of an "Information, Please" program, Master of Ceremonies Bill Gurganus and committeemen Pete Harris, Bill Harrington, and Sherman Harper gave a memorable performance...
...Service Committeemen of the Phillips Brooks House are again at their regular tasks of selling War Bonds and Stamps and soliciting Blood Donors for the Red Cross after an interim during the vacation and examinations extending through most of the month of June...
...born Office of Scientific Research and Development, derives from OSRD's extraordinary effectiveness in World War II. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal appointed the "Committee on Postwar Research" which last week began to draft plans for the new agency. The committeemen have all been active in OSRD...
...long, sharp session, and just one day before its first birthday, the Committee picked up the solemn request of the Assembly, made three weeks before, and formally declared itself to be the Provisional Government of the French Republic. Many Committeemen had previously opposed the change; only the barbs from London and Washington goaded them into making it now. The gauntlet was down; Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill would have to decide whether to pick it up, try to kick it aside, or ignore...
...genuine member of the resistance movement? Or would they say that he had knuckled under to the King to get himself the premiership? Papandreou had dropped a puzzling remark: "Greek politics have changed. We are no longer royalists or republicans. Just nationalists or extreme left-wingers." The committeemen of the mountains were in touch with Tito of Yugoslavia, a man with a strikingly similar problem, and they gave evidence of being attuned to suggestions from Moscow...