Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jocularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
...Administration's proposed "Big Navy" program having been fixed at some $1,500,000,000, to be spread over the next five to nine years and to include 74 ships plus men, aircraft and maintenance (TIME, Feb. 20), the Naval Affairs Committee of the House last week held caucus for Irate Citizens. Most of the talk focused on the ship program which, taken separately, totaled some...
...Lowden. In Illinois, the State Supreme Court declared constitutional a law substituting a primary election for the caucus system of nominating candidates for state offices, including delegates to President-nominating conventions. Underlings of Frank Orren Lowden hastened to enter his name as a primary candidate, rejoicing that he now had a chance to get nominating votes in his home State, where, while the caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses...
Senator Hefflin's latest and most vigorour lunge at the Catholic windmill will probably no more add to the gayety of the nation, than it will disrupt the minority party. For the Democrats, with the exception of some Senators, mostly southern, who remained away from the caucus yesterday, repudiated the Alabaman by unanimous support of his opponent Robinson. And if the fathers of this country are turning in their graves because a senator in Congress questioned the right of a man to be president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such...
...come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners who gathered in Washington, D. C., for a caucus. They rumbled that Superintendent McBride was not "militant" enough. The League was planning to raise and spend a million per year for five years in a battle-to-the-death with 'leggers...