Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tramping ponderously into a crowded congressional caucus room, John spoke of death and terror in the bowels of the earth. When he mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...bullheadedness began to embarrass his G.O.P. colleagues. At week's end the House leadership was ready to call a caucus to thrash out the tax question and avoid an open, intraparty fight...
Next day at a Laborite caucus, Bevin faced sharper questions from his own party critics. He told what a Laborite described as a "sob story": had he been able to deal solely with British Jewry, a solution could have been found long ago, but the dangerous influence of American Jewry had been at work and robbed him of any chance of success. Buck-toothed Konni Zilliacus, pro-Soviet Laborite, tossed a charge of "playing power politics," accused Bevin of letting the strategic Iraq-Palestine pipeline † stand in the way of any solution. Reported one M.P.: "Ernie in his most...
...leading Labor Member of Parliament said that Bevin, facing critics in a Laborite caucus, blamed pressure of American Jews on the United States government for his failure to reach an agreed settlement in Palestine...
High on the week's slate also for the veterans organization is participation in the Massachusetts State AVC Convention at Old South Meeting House tomorrow and Sunday. Meeting yesterday for a preliminary caucus, the chapter delegation of 15 which was elected Monday night chose Stanley G. Karson '48, of Leverett House, as its chairman...