Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a red-hot speech of which this was the climax beefy Edouard Daladier challenged the leadership of beefier Edouard Herriot last week at the annual caucus of France's great balance-of-power party, the Radical Socialists...
...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...
...anguished snarl pierced the caucus room. It was the voice of Ralph Brewster crying: "You're a liar...
More light was thrown on the character of that issue as the Senate investigation of Republican Governor Paul Martin Pearson's administration of the Virgin Islands droned into its second week in the sweltering Senate caucus room (TIME, July 15). Appearing with a strip of adhesive tape cocked over the eye which Columnist Robert S. Allen blacked for him last fortnight, mousy-looking Paul C. Yates called up the Islands' men of God to prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced...
...care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further. No sooner had he departed than Senators Tydings, Harrison and Robinson trooped into the White House for a full hour's heart-to-heart with the President. They too marched out mum, but Senator Tydings hurried over to the Senate caucus room, recessed his investigation...