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...commission was appointed to see what could be done about improving the Negroes' lot. Following suit, Mayor LaGuardia last week appointed a similar committee composed of prominent Negroes like Poet Countee Cullen and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, such professional white committeemen as Trustee William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee Institute, Lawyers Morris Ernst and Arthur Garfield Hays...
...Committee to produce a parliamentary rule cutting short debate, forbidding any amendments to the bill except those proposed by the Appropriations Committee. Obligingly Rules Chairman John Joseph O'Connor drew up the necessary rule and took it to his committee. To his distress three of his nine Democratic committeemen balked strenuously for three reasons...
POSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY'S call to all Democratic National committeemen or committeewomen to resign from the posts if they hold public office will have, as a matter of practical politics, little if any effect on the operations of the Democratic Party...
...only other purpose which National Committeemen serve is to keep the local party organizations intact. But this can be done as well if not better by Democrats who are actually in office than by National Committeemen who reside in their states and do not have day-by-day contact with the administration. If it were necessary to line up delegates for a National Convention, which it probably will not be necessary to do in 1936, the office-holder has an even better opportunity than a National Committeeman to see that the wishes of the Administration are carried...
...Sanger. slim and tense, recited her old piece to the glum, fidgeting Committeemen: "The forgotten woman can have her child's teeth and adenoids cared for at clinics. She can send her children to get free luncheons. She can do nothing for her own most pressing problem...