Word: committeewomen
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...craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
Barry Morris Goldwater wouldn't say hello, so the young Harvard Law student who wanted to meet the defeated Republican Presidential candidate trailed him around the room. Goldwater chatted with Republican national committeemen, committeewomen and prominent GOP politicians from all over the country; the student listened...
...energetic publisher of the Denver Post, backed him editorially. So, to Denver's surprise, did the Post's archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...
...spare her colleagues whatever "embarrassment" her public defense of King Leopold might bring them, Sculptress Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson resigned as vice president of the Belgian Relief Fund, took a deep breath and wrote to 50 fellow committeewomen: "Because of various documents from Belgium which are in my possession I am firmly convinced that the action taken by His Majesty, King Leopold, in surrendering was the only course possible and I know that his contemplated action was only taken after consultation with the British and French commanders and was well known to them in advance and, therefore, when uninformed persons make...
Names. The embattled committeemen and committeewomen sought to solve their problem soothingly with Names. Those bruited outside the meeting, ranging in age and political experience from 35-year-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh to Illinois' 76-year-old ex-Governor Frank Orren Lowden, were so numerous that the committee decided to pick some 150 instead of 100 philosophers...