Word: committeewoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potent is the Republican National Committeeman from New York for, above all others, he must know the rich men whose contributions sustain the G. O. P. in campaigns. Potent, too, is his associate, New York's National Committeewoman, for above all others, she must know the wives of the money bags. Charles Dewey Hilles is still the New York committeeman. To fill the committeewoman's post, empty since the resignation of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York...
Three days after President Hoover had pledged his administration to the Constitution in general and the 18th Amendment in particular, Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin resigned as New York's Republican National Committeewoman. Her reason: "I want to devote my untrammeled efforts toward working for a change in the Prohibition law." Her friends awaited developments, well knowing that the slim, smiling, brown-eyed wife of Manhattan Banker Sabin did not drop, without finishing, what she took up. Last week came some developments...
...Philadelphia detectives arrested two Negro youths for wearing corsets within which were fastened hot water bottles containing whiskey. The charge was illegal transportation. ¶ One of Mr. Lament's former A. A. P. A. associates was Banker Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin,- Republican National Committeewoman from New York, campaigned last fall for Mr. Hoover, saying that she believed his election would be the most practical way of securing Modification. What she thinks* of the President's becoming the rallying point of the Drys is not known but last week she resigned as Committeewoman, saying...
...Brown Derby in the evening. The evening that his father accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, James Roosevelt was speaking on the Democratic side of a bi-partisan radio program. His partner was Miss Sarah Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, National Committeeman and Committeewoman of New Hampshire. Their opponents were Maxon H. Eddy, Yale football captain, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes...
...relation seemed so strange was, of course, that Politics and Society have long been divorced in the U. S. It is not yet so in England, nor in Virginia. Although she says "Amer-r-rican" like a dowager duchess, Lady Astor was every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke down. She was politic...