Word: committeewoman
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Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
...them, outspend practically all of them. Uvalde's white-browed John Nance Garner became her great & good friend-in & out of smoke-filled rooms, they understood each other. She made quadrennial $25,000 donations to national campaigns, but know-how, not money, worked her up to national committeewoman...
Names Make News. In Cleveland, Barbara Fritchey, county war-bond committeewoman, telephoned one John Paul Jones, announced that her boss, Daniel Boone, had scheduled as speakers for a meeting Underwriter Paul Whiteman and the Urban League's George Washington...
Telephones jangled in the homes of many a Republican National Committeeman and Committeewoman last week. Over the long-distance wires explanations were made and promises asked. For the battle to shape the future of the Republican Party-a future that looked exceedingly bright after last fortnight's elections-had been joined...
...Culbert Olson, running far behind on the Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...