Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of Congress was new, its mechanics were as old as the U. S. Proceedings began in the House with the election of Illinois' white-thatched Henry Thomas Rainey to the Speakership as a result of last fortnight's Tennessee-Texas-Tammany deal in the Democratic caucus. He got 302 votes to the 110 cast for his Republican opponent, New York's Snell&3151;an immediate demonstration of the Democrats' margin of House control...
Before 301 Democratic members of the 73rd Congress marched into the House chamber, bolted the doors and settled down on the black leather seats for a party caucus, there were three outstanding candidates for the Speakership vacated by John Nance Garner. Big, white-mopped Representative Rainey, 72, considered himself "in line" for the job because he had been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie...
...three-way deal dominated the caucus from the start. Withdrawing from the major contest, Representative Byrns nominated Representative Rainey for Speaker after which Representative Rainey nominated Representative Byrns for majority leader. Tammany, always partial to a winner, swung its votes behind the Rainey-Byrns ticket in return for the appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated...
...threats that President Albert Lebrun would dissolve the Chamber and order an election unless the Socialists, by withdrawing their opposition, made it possible for his Cabinet to raise the general French income tax rate 10% and cut the salaries of civil servants receiving more than $470 yearly. Meeting in caucus, the Socialist Party split, the majority faction bolting away from Party Leader Leon Blum. Famed as a Cabinet killer, M. Blum overthrew Premiers Herriot and Paul-Boncour. He favored overthrowing Premier Daladier last week. Paris grew feverish with excitement as midnight neared. The last day for voting credits to tide...
Last December, on the first day of the session, Speaker Garner gave the House a chance to vote Repeal. The House defeated it by six votes. Following the Senate's action, the Speaker called a Democratic caucus at which members were bound to support Repeal as a party principle...