Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore, M. Leon Blum, fiery leader of the Socialist Party (TIME, Dec. 7, 1925), displayed nought but acumen when he harangued a party caucus as follows last week...
...view of such practices entering into the primary campaigns. It is in evitable that there should be a great deal of interest, and some agitation in favor of abolishing the direct primary altogether. The difficulty arises in finding a substitute, since the caucus seems to be equally bad if not worse...
Full Stop. A few hours later the storm burst at a secret session of the Council. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco announced his original stand once more and clung to it. An informal caucus of the delegates of nine Latin American nations twice met and twice repudiated the declaration of Senhor Franco that Brazil was only holding firm in the interest of all Latin America...
...Republican caucus declared that this system encourages promiscuous investigation and is too costly. Senator Warren, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, produced a list of the sums appropriated by the Senate for its investigations in the last 17 years...
...Democrats and Progressive Republicans view this action by the Republican caucus with distaste and distrust. They regard it as a political move to shut off investigations in order to protect the Administration. They fear that, if investigations are referred to committees for appraisal as to their worth, the committees will pigeonhole them...