Word: committeewoman
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...come we shall look back on this undertaking [the Marshall Plan] as the dividing line . . . between the old era of national suspicion, economic hostility and isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, Democratic National Committeewoman from Kansas, as Treasurer of the United States. A former actress, later a bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received...
...Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic national committeewoman...
President Truman and Senator Barkley had just come into the hall (see above) when Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller bustled up to the podium. The sister of Pennsylvania's ex-Senator Joseph Guffey, and a perennial committeewoman, Mrs. Miller calls herself the Old Grey Mare...
...some splinter groups-and some who still hoped to heal the breach. Oilman Joe Pew, once a real power but now a political has-been, privately favored Bob Taft. Philadelphia's ex-City Chairman Jay Cooke had a small handful of delegates lined up for Harold Stassen. National Committeewoman Mrs. Worthington Scranton was working feverishly for unity behind U.S. Senator Edward Martin-who would be the delegation's favorite-son choice on the first ballot...
...state's Republican delegation (only one man failed to show up: he was in a hospital). He charmed everyone in sight, went off to bed early. The next morning he rocketed off to Richmond. No sooner had he stepped off the train than an enthusiastic city committeewoman rushed up, bussed him on the cheek and burbled later: "I was just so happy I hardly knew what I was doing. I doubt if the governor even remembers it." Gallantly Dewey told a press conference: "Do you think I could forget a kiss from such a lady...