Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, as elsewhere, nothing fails like failure. And last week M. Caillaux added insult to failure by two acts: 1) He defied the powerful Radical-Socialist bloc, which he had attempted to conciliate at its caucus in Nice (TIME, Oct. 23), by flatly declaring that he would "bar the way" to the adoption of its pet capital-levy panacea; 2) He refused the demands of Premier Painleve, Foreign Minister Briand and the rest of the Cabinet that he resign as a politically insolvent Finance Minister...
Suddenly came action abrupt and typically decisive from the Monarchists, who abhor Locarno and all its works. At a caucus of the Nationalist Reichstag deputies a resolution was adopted condemning "the results of the Locarno treaties at present available...
...save their faces, everybody supposed the Aventines would vote at their caucus to end their political abstention in view of the reopening of Parliament. Not so. The Deputies voted continuance of the boycott. Many of them demurred. Deputy Dice Sarò, one of the leaders, resigned. Others were expected to return to the Chamber in defiance of the majority...
...search for a Cabinet that would be acceptable to Parliament ended, last week, when Count Poullet, on his second attempt, formed a Catholic-Liberal-Socialist Cabinet which was approved by caucus of the various parties and was therefore sure to be supported by a majority in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies (TIME...
...Floor Leader to succeed Mr. Longworth (as Mr. Longworth had promised if he won), a little more business was transacted and in less than an hour and a half the caucus was over. Mr. Longworth-"Nick," wearer of spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois...