Word: committeewoman
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...crowds than any other U. S. horse race. Notables in last week's 40,000 had a political rather than socialite cast. Governors of six states-Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana- were at the track. James Roosevelt was staying with Mrs. Alvin T. Hert. Republican National Committeewoman from Kentucky. From New York came Bernard Baruch, Forbes Morgan, onetime Sheriff Tom Farley. Boss John F. Curry, who made his own bets. Boss John McCooey who tried to pick a "daily double." From Washington came Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Postmaster General...
...convention, supporters of various candidates in their replies counseled patience and moderation in dealing with Prohibition. New York's ambitious Governor Roosevelt has sought to play down his Wetness to win Dry support. Among his supporters is 74-year-old Elisabeth Marbury, New York's prodigious national committeewoman. Her reply reflected the strategy of the Roosevelt boosters...
...Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed the State's Republican Executive Committee, was chosen West Virginia's Republican National Committeewoman. Last winter she ably marshaled all Dry witnesses for the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of Prohibition (TIME, March 17, et seq.). She was credited with having enough influence to get her husband, Ellis A. Yost, a good job with the Federal Radio Commission. Her elevation in the Republican National...
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...