Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignoring Administration criticism, the Ways & Means Committee favorably reported the Garner measure by a strict party vote. All Democrats found themselves bound to support the bill after a stormy party caucus had ratified it (123-to-18). Mayor Murphy sped to Washington with the resolutions adopted at the Detroit conference as the final impetus to put through the House this first piece of wholesale Federal relief...
...caucus of 58 Cook County Legislators met, proposed to draft a bill to fund $388,000,000 worth of Cook County's unpaid 1928-30 taxes. It was quite evident that, with the County in technical default for $1,868,400 due last June, investors would be slow indeed to buy any more of Mayor Cermak's tax anticipation warrants. Last week speculation as to a possible receivership for Chicago grew louder & louder...
...last week Speaker-presumptive Garner shuffled and shifted committee lists in an effort to work out a scheme that the whole party could support at its caucus Dec. 5. What pointed up the bargaining politically was the fact that patronage worth $2,000,000 per year in wages for constituents was at stake...
...Speaker and then defeated by Democrat Gamer. Cheesemaker Snell, hard-boiled and reactionary when the Republicans are in complete control, went about last week conciliating and winning over Progressive votes to his candidacy with oversized promises of liberalizing the House rules. After eight ballots in a party caucus he won the Speakership nomination which meant he would be minority Floor Leader in the 72nd Congress...
...Herbert Samuel, who led an equally large bloc of Liberals to Scot MacDonald, was rewarded last week with the Home Office. His Liberal bloc met in caucus during the week, elected him leader of what hereafter will be the Liberal Party. David Lloyd George, from whom all but four Liberal M. P.'s? have bolted, sourly announced on the eve of Leader Sir Herbert's election that he, Mr. Lloyd George, was "not a candidate...