Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stressing that their meeting was in no way to be construed a measure to organize a solid voting block to dominate the three-day conference, the delegates, representing 16 colleges and youth organizations and including the four Harvard nominees, characterized their caucus as an effort to clarify the issues involved and lay down some concrete suggestions for action at Chicago...
...anti-Bevin rebellion in the Labor Party's ranks was the subject of a terse party caucus. Rebel Leader Richard Grossman, after stern, reproving lectures behind locked doors by Prime Minister Attlee and other party fathers, had apologized and promised not to do it again. But, said one Labor M.P.: "It's like the man who finds that his wife has been unfaithful. She says she's sorry, and they are to patch up the marriage and carry on for the sake of the children. But the honeymoon is definitely over...
...present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
Answering the roll call of last week's extraordinary caucus were such practiced pork-barrelers as Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar, Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin, Louisiana's paunchy John Overton. Bilbo, still convalescing from inflammation of the mouth (see PEOPLE), apologized for his inability to orate. Overton, running two degrees of fever, left early. But others jumped up to accuse Harry Truman of defying the will of Congress...
...high court of price regulation this week took up its rule. If the three-man Price Decontrol Board did nothing before August 21, price ceilings would go back on grain, meat, dairy products, cottonseed and soybeans. When the doors opened into the high-ceilinged marble of the Senate Caucus Room for the first public hearing, a flood of businessmen flowed through. Most of them argued that it would be economic folly to sit tight, i.e., let ceilings go back...