Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Senator LaFollette is no less an insurgent than his father. From babyhood upward he stood at his father's side and learned the catechism of insurgency. Last year the late Senator LaFolette was read out of the Republican caucus and denied appointment to committees as a Republican. No such course was taken last week when the Republican caucus met. The young Senator was invited to be present. He did not attend, however. The reason for the change of front by the regulars was that they deem it wiser now to be conciliatory. Next year one-third...
...time last week the tail, wagged by M. Blum, wagged on. He would listen to nothing but supremacy for his Unified Socialists. Thus faced with flat insubordination in the cartel, M. Herriot grew furious. After informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet, he rushed to a caucus of his still loyal adherents and had a motion passed approving his refusal to form a cabinet on Blum's terms. This action was widely interpreted as meaning an end to the cartel arrangement...
Hitherto the Luther-Stresemann Government has been able to count with certainty upon the support of only the Centrist Parties. After deliberating for two hours last week, the Socialist caucus announced positively that it would throw in its lot with the Government. On that basis Chancellor Luther was generally conceded to have secured more than enough votes to insure ratification of the Locarno Pacts by the Reichstag. When the Reichsrat* endorsed the treaties, last week, by a vote of 34 to 4, the prophecy was considered to have become a certainty...
...interval before these bills could be submitted, the National- ists, in caucus and out, continued to call for the flat rejection of the Pacts. General Ludendorff, arch-ultra-die-hard, spoke as follows...
Last week, with a big caucus of the Nationalists scheduled to meet in a few days, and with the Reichstag slated to assemble very shortly, it was apparently felt by both the Cabinet of the Reich and the Allies that some immediate show of mutual faith was in order...