Word: committeewoman
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...Paul FitzSimons, Republican National Committeewoman from Rhode Island, in a letter to the New York Herald Tribune told how she and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaking from Portsmouth, N. H. last September, had their broadcast spoiled by interference from a brass band whenever they attacked the New Deal. She also told of listening to the Republican broadcast last week over WGN: Reception of WGN in Rhode Island was perfect until five minutes before the political broadcast began. "At that time roars and crashes began which continued incessantly until five minutes after the . . . program ended...
...from Nebraska, resigned to continue a lucrative political law practice in Washington. Last week in a stormy Democratic meeting at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Mullen shouted: "I represent the President here." At his command his henchman, Keith Neville, was elected National Committeeman in his stead. ¶Nellie Tayloe Ross. Committeewoman from Wyoming and national vice chairman, resigned to continue her job as Directress of the Mint. ¶Jed Cobb Adams, Committeeman from Texas, resigned to continue in his job on the Board of Tax Appeals-a resignation offered in May 1933 but which Mr. Farley...
Pausing occasionally to shake the snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
Henry H. ("Hal") Sevier, Corpus Christi, Tex. newspaperman, to be Ambassador to Chile. His wife is Democratic National Committeewoman from Texas...
...outdoor look about her. She uses neither rouge nor lipstick. She is most at home in the saddle. She has an expert eye for cattle. No Roosevelt goes West without stopping off to visit her at Tucson or Williams. An able Democrat, she has been Arizona's national committeewoman since 1928. At the Chicago convention last year she seconded the Roosevelt nomination and had a large hand in engineering the McAdoo switch. Her House seat will be her first public office...