Word: committeemen
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...Reuther, U.A.W. vice president and one of organized labor's best brains, had sold the War Department the idea: if workers could fraternize with soldiers on soldiers' terms, there might be greater effort on the assembly lines. In Atterbury, Reuther led his 250 shop stewards and committeemen to waiting combat carriers. In the Sard's mess halls the newcomers dined heartily; marched to barracks. Lights went...
Remarkable Side. What floored the committeemen was that nobody seemed to know why cheating was done. No graft or even bonuses had been traced. Thus employes had everything to lose, nothing to gain. Explained harried, worried Carnegie-Illinois President J. Lester Perry: "A few individuals . . . grew lax under the pressure of heavy production...
...selects to do its nominating. Complaints that men have been selected from politically-minded cliques and from the Council's own little family have hit home too strongly. Designed also to protect the reputations of men on the nominating committees who are put up for election by their fellow committeemen, the new censorship fails to protect the interests of the student body...
...demands for more broadly selected committees are justified, the Council cannot right its injustice by burying its head in the sand. If the rule assuring committeemen of nomination themselves is sufficient, the Council should not find it necessary to work behind locked doors. Unless the students know who are running the machinery of their government the temptation for log-rolling may prove too great. The Council as their representative body is alone able to satisfy the needs of the undergraduates; if it forgets that prime relationship all its reports and resolutions might just as well be torn...
...most of these States, Wendell Willkie still had some great & good friends in the G.O.P.'s high places. In other States (notably Oregon, Washington, much of New England) his friends were in control: at the recent St. Louis convention, 21 of the 106 Republican committeemen were definitely on his side, and another 19 voted with them. But the plain fact was that a potent majority-including many a pre-Philadelphia Willkieite like Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr-now opposed him. If he ever wanted to be the Republican candidate for President again, he would have a hard...