Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition first held a special caucus-of-war at the headquarters of Field Marshal Simmons. They decided to reverse their strategy of last Spring limiting tariff fighting only to the Farm Lowlands. They consented to give the regular Republicans battle all along the tariff line, with a view to beating down with their rifle butts all industrial rates that dared pop their heads above the present trench level...
...giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever perpetrated." Last fortnight he plumped out brazenly for the "spoils system" of party patronage (TIME, June His votes are highly independent; he never attends a Democratic caucus. Impartial observers rate him thus: No constructive legislator, in a large sense, he nevertheless gets things for South Carolina (jobs, public buildings, waterway developments, a new judicial district). He frequently says what many another Senator thinks but dares not utter. He is more of a Senate character than a Senate...
...bald, rich Joseph Caillaux, onetime Prime Minister (1911-12) master intriguer among the Left Parties. Torpedoist Caillaux sank the Sacred Union by forcing four of its members, including Edouard Herriot, to resign in obedience to a caucus of their own party, stampeded by Demagog Caillaux...
...buzzing in the Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment...
...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...