Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican National Committeemen arrived in Washington for their first real caucus of the 1928 campaign. Some of them were said to have heard President Coolidge say: "I wonder who could beat 'Al' Smith if I didn...
Republican National Committeemen prefaced their caucus with pros and cons as to whether "he can have his way about...
After calling on President Coolidge (see p. 7), Mayor Thompson strode into the caucus room of the House office building, where the Flood Control Committee waited. Representative Reid seemed impressed by his fellow Illinoisian and introduced him to the committee as "the man who knows more about the Mississippi Flood than any other man." (Cheers.) "No man has done more for flood control than William Hale Thompson," said Chairman Reid. (More cheers...
...League for Justice." Robert Morss Lovett of Chicago, Boston- bred English scholar, educator, critic, liberal publicist, who had long been active in the Citizens' National Committee for Sacco & Vanzetti, issued a call for the formation, at a caucus, in Manhattan, of a Sacco-Vanzetti League for Justice. He and others had drafted aims for such a league...
...Heard that a Republican caucus had, by acclamation, renominated Nicholas Longworth as Speaker and John Q. Tilson as Floor Leader for the forthcoming 70th Congress...