Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election he was President Monroe's candidate for the White House. Against him in the Democratic party were arrayed John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson. Crawford men insisted that a Congressional caucus, as heretofore, should make the Presidential nomination. All others flayed the caucus as undemocratic, refused to participate. In the election Crawford was a poor third and the choice was thrown into the House of Representatives where Adams was elected with 13 States voting for him, Jackson getting seven, Crawford four. Historically the defeat of Crawford marked the end of "King Caucus," the beginning of a slow...
Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
Republican members of the 72nd House of Representatives met last week in what began as a caucus and ended as a conference.* Their purpose was to arrange for party organization of the next House in which, at most, they have a paper-thin majority of two votes. From the meeting 18 Republicans, including five regulars from Kansas, deliberately absented themselves. Despite these defects which left it a House minority, the G. 0. P. renominated Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to be Speaker and John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut to be Majority Leader...
...majority decisions of a caucus are binding upon all present; those of a conference...
Emerging from a Democratic caucus, Senator Robinson-who was such an avowed Administration cooperator in December that his followers accused him of "going White House"-defiantly flung his party's challenge. He announced that he had no other choice than to tack his relief amendment onto all subsequent supply bills, unless Congress would immediately vote $50,500,000 worth of relief legislation, plus 20,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat to feed the hungry. Senator Robinson listed his requirements as follows...