Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [Nov. 5] says that Admiral Ernie King sailed into the caucus room port "with all his guns blazing...
...first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary...
...storied, mahogany-and-marble walled caucus room on the Senate Office Building's third floor came representatives of scores of national organizations, leaders of church, education and women's groups, leaders of the vanishing fringe of die-hard nationalists, many a listening Congressman, many a service man. They heard no rousing debates, no sharp claps of oratorical thunder. They heard very little that was substantial said against the Charter...
...Hendaye, a pleasant town and international rumor factory on the Spanish-French border. President Truman planned to cross the Atlantic and then France without seeing Charles de Gaulle, who will visit him later in Washington. Since it would never do to give the impression of an advance Anglo-American caucus, Truman and Churchill decided not to meet before they reached Potsdam. Stalin was coming by train over rails recently changed, all the way to the Elbe, to the broad Russian gauge...
...Road to Serfdom. "There is to be one state to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. This state is to be arch-employer, arch-planner, arch-administrator and ruler and arch-caucus boss. How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say, what views they are to hold and within what limits they...