Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes turned to the plump, cherubic-looking young speaker seated at one end of the long green table in the House caucus room...
Down a corridor in the Senate Office Building one day last week strode a squat, husky, red-headed Washington newshawk named Robert S. Allen. Outside the big Senate caucus room he spotted a thin, greyish ex-Washington newshawk named Paul C. Yates...
...almost like old times last week when General Hugh S. Johnson appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to testify on the bill to renew NRA. The huge Senate caucus room was jam-packed to the doors with twittery spectators. The onetime NRAdministrator looked as tired and bleary-eyed as he did in the late summer of 1933: he had just spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose and began to read...
Faced with an unruly party caucus, Speaker Longworth was apt to rock back on his patrician heels and remark with ominous mildness: "Some of you won't be back here next year, and the roll call is going to show who some of them are." In a similar case, a small slit would open in Speaker Garner's cherry-red face and he would say: "There's no use fooling yourselves, boys. The old man's got four aces showing already. You can't possibly call." To face such a situation the best that Speaker...
...friend reports that during a great party caucus, or meeting of some sort, in Moscow, that when Stalin was scheduled to speak no less than four Stalins came onto the platform...