Word: committeewoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrayed against the new power of the west were such diverse Democrats as Pennsylvania's Governor David Leo Lawrence, Illinois' Jake Arvey, New York's Carmine De Sapio and Georgia's Committeewoman Mrs. T. K. Kendrick. In trying to persuade the Democratic National Committee to veto the site-selection committee's choice of Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic convention, they argued that 1) Los Angeles is expensively far away for most delegates, 2) the Pacific time zone would mean poorly programed telecasting to eastern audiences, 3) Los Angeles smog is too thick...
...Home Again. In Lyndhurst, N.J., Guy Pezzolla stayed home from the polls because of a cold, later had to console his wife, a candidate for Republican committeewoman, who lost by one vote...
Even more imposing than the committee's mushroom cloud was the committee's list of well-heeled and influential supporters. Among the signers of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration: Committee Co-Chairman Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review; former Democratic National Committeewoman India Edwards...
...next speaker was the State Committeewoman who was noting the price of food when applause was heard outside. The committeewoman went on. The audience turned to the rear of the hall as drums boomed in the corridor. She move closer to the microphone. Then the blaring band marched into the hall; she stepped back and stared at the wilting orchid on her shoulder...
...almost voiceless during Shivers' years as governor, had agreed in advance upon the election of Temple's Byron Skelton, 51, longtime party loyalist, as national committeeman. But when Johnson tried to balance Liberal Skelton by proposing McAllen's conservative Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen Jr. as national committeewoman, he overstepped. The resurgent liberals, pointing to Beryl Bentsen's past support of Shivers, rallied behind their own candidate, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, a spry, 62-year-old grandmother and banker's wife from Houston. Late that evening Beryl Bentsen withdrew and Frankie Randolph was elected from the floor...