Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City...
Senator-elect Guffey's men took one vote which pledged their 23 votes to Candidate Byrns. Beaming, "Joe" Byrns went into their caucus to thank them. "This," he asserted, "absolutely assures my election...
...firm in the country was called to the carpet. Accompanied by a buzzing swarm of lawyers, secretaries and assistants, the three brothers du Pont, Pierre. Lammot, Irènée. with their cousin Felix, all of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., stepped into the white marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building to give their testimony. A square-jawed fact: the du Pont company had made a profit of $250,000,000 during the War, paid 195% in dividends, and salted its winnings away in virtual control of General Motors...
...Chief of the Reichswehr. In all 98 ranking officers appeared, to gether with the whole German Cabinet and every Nazi bigwig of note. Ambassadors of the Great Powers once again remained in Berlin, again fumed at "the impertinence of this ignoramus in inviting the corps diplomatique to a party caucus...
Meanwhile the United Farmers' caucus, unimpressed by Mr. Justice Ives's opinion that Miss MacMillan is as serviceable as ever, had accepted Premier Brownlee's offer to spare the Party embarrassment by handing his resignation to the representative of George V in Alberta, Lieutenant Governor W. L. Walsh. No question of the United Farmers' right to continue to rule Alberta was raised. His Majesty's representative merely appointed another United Farmer, Richard Gavin Reid, Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Lands and Mines, to carry on as Premier...