Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President let it be known that he approved the action of the Republican leaders in Congress in not inviting the (Insurgents to the Republican House Caucus which is to take place later this month (see Page...
...69th Congress of the U. S. comes into existence on Mar. 4. To be sure it will not meet until some months later. But before that date, on Feb. 27, the caucus of the Republican members of the House in the 69th Congress will meet. Last week, the Republican Committee on Committees issued the call. Because the caucus is an extra-legal body, it will not matter that some of its members are not Congressmen, but only Congressmen...
Ordinarily, caucuses are not held until, at most, a day or two before a Congress comes in session, when its members have already assembled in Washington. The coming caucus will consist of the Republican members of the present Congress who were re-elected last fall and of the 50-odd Republicans newly elected to serve in that body. The caucus will have three major functions...
...choose a Republican candidate for Speaker of the House (to succeed Speaker Gillett who goes to the Senate). Since the Republicans will have a majority in the next Congress, the choice of the caucus should be practically equivalent to election. The two leading candidates are Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, Republican floor leader and Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois...
...entire motive behind the 'cabal,' now the caucus, has been the frustration of every social interest-of truth itself, whenever it threatens to interfere with special interest. It has the motive of the Camorra, the Black Hand, the Fascismo, to prevent the expression of ideas that question the infallibility of special judgments, regardless of their conformity with the facts of life or the laws and principles embedded in the nature of things, social, economic and industrial...