Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole Laborite of Cabinet rank not to lose his Parliamentary seat in the election landslide. No Laborite looks to bumbling "Old George" as the Party's real leader, but there was no one else who could be made its floor leader in the House last week. Meeting in caucus outside the House, Laborites re-elected as Party Leader "Uncle Arthur" Henderson who has lost his seat. For the time being Uncle Arthur is in the same boat as "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, leader of the German Opposition who cannot enter the Reichstag because he is an Austrian...
Nobody in the District of Columbia was busier than President Hoover last week. Returning from the World Series baseball game at Philadelphia, he announced that he had summoned a Congressional caucus (see col. 3). On Tuesday he held a Cabinet meeting all morning, prepared a draft of his Super Plan (see p. 13) which he read to his visitors at 9 p. m. The meeting adjourned at midnight. Next afternoon President Hoover held another long conference with builders, financiers, real estate men-notably Clarence Dillon of the Manhattan brokerage firm of Dillon, Read & Co. and President William Aiken Starrett...
...wait a long time to collect their foreign loans. But Senators like WilHam Edgar Borah of Idaho and Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas were quick to catch up the President when they thought they detected a cancellationist note in his Super Plan as read to them at the caucus. Therefore surprise was occasioned last week when the White House announced that when the year's moratorium in intergovernmental debts expires, the United States will not insist that European payments be resumed, except on the basis of the capacity of the debtor nations to pay. In return...
...director of War Finance Corp. and to whom hurried calls to the White House were not new, and Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills?President Hoover sat at a small desk. In front of him were 36 comfortable chairs. In the chairs were seated his "little Congress," actually a coalition caucus, since those members of the Opposition were present who could carry out a joint program in Congress if they wanted to. The President arose and read to them his Super Plan for restoring U. S. business confidence...
...amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill. He foils the efforts of catchpenny opponents to make him withdraw this wise legislation (by which the U. S. Government assumed war debts contracted by the 13 colonies) and is at last congratulated on its passage by a caucus of colonial celebrities including President Washington...