Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edinburgh restless Scotsmen held the first regular caucus of their new Scottish Self-Government party, elected as its leader stodgy James Graham, the excessively aristocratic 6th Duke of Montrose...
...personal rule of one man. . . . Stalin has destroyed every vestige of democracy within the Party!'' Extremely cautious, Dictator Stalin look no action against the manifesto's daring authors until he had obtained, by means best known to himself, a vote of confidence from the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party, sitting secretly inside Moscow's Kremlin (TIME. Oct. 17). With this in pocket, Comrade Stalin proceeded to strike last week, sharply but cautiously, Not a single Big Red was touched. Instead two comrades who were Big Reds in the world's headlines years...
Stone walls do the Kremlin make. Not a building, as most people suppose, the Kremlin is Moscow's citadel, a triangle of high ground bounded by walls and bastions behind which cluster massive government buildings and multi-spired church towers. Last week the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party rose after sitting secretly inside the Kremlin with awful solemnity, supposedly shaping the destinies of Russia...
Days before the Conference met last week, Ottawa swarmed with lobbyists and dickerers from all parts of the Empire and the world. Some 5,000 farmers from Ontario and Quebec were marching upon Ottawa. They proposed to meet in monster caucus, formulate demands for measures to enhance crop prices, present these demands to the Conference...
Distinctly tabbyish is Edouard Herriot, plump and wavy-haired Mayor of Lyons! whose so-called Radical-Socialist Party won the French Chamber of Deputies election (TIME, May 16). Not the least bit radical. M. Herriot's party decided in caucus last week not to join forces with the mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate...