Word: committeeman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...United States Senate, egg-bald, ulcer-plagued little Jake Arvey made good his threat to resign as boss of the Cook County Democratic organization. He did it, he said, "for reasons of health." To make him feel better, Democratic leaders promised him the job of Illinois National Committeeman, which has been vacant since Boss Ed Kelly died...
...proposal was made last week by the Leverett House Committee and has the backing of at least one Housemaster. This master "likes the idea very much," according to committeeman Gerry P. Gallo...
Professor Cecil Frank Powell, 46, the committeeman who won the $31,715 prize for physics, got his award for developing a simple method of probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done...
Died. Rentfro Banton Creager, 73, the Republican Party's senior National Committeeman, longtime ringmaster of Republican politics in Texas; in Brownsville, Texas...
...Candidate Carr died of a heart attack just after the primary election (TIME, Sept. 25), they had figured that his name on the ticket would also be enough to carry able, unspectacular Eugene Millikin into another term in the U.S. Senate. Slipping off to the home of a national committeeman in Colorado Springs last week, the state's Republican leaders settled down to look for a successor who could carry the same double burden...