Word: committeeman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Headed by 6,750 national guardsmen and followed by 30 drum & bugle corps, herds of mechanized floats, Harry Truman rolled down Madison Street to Chicago Stadium. Each Cook County committeeman was instructed to provide 30 men holding giant-size flares. Some 25,000 balloons soared into the night ("You have to have something for the kids," explained a committeeman...
...when they had finished, Jonathan Daniels, national committeeman from North Carolina and onetime White House assistant, walked to the microphone. "I was one of the eleven Southern delegates who voted for Harry Truman in 1948, so I don't have to prove my allegiance," he began. "I come as a representative of southern Democrats-not Dixiecrats. I want to see an advance in the liberties of all the people. But I'm opposed to a compulsory FEPC, not because I want to keep people in slavery, but because we are making progress in the South . . . We cannot have...
Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...