Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican members of the House of Representatives last week unveiled a ' surprise Republican platform for the campaign of 1942. For the first time in several months the press found itself praising a statesmanlike stand by the G.O.P. Said the ten-point manifesto approved by a caucus of 115 G.O.P. representatives...
...members of this group, among the best Republican brains in the House, each drew up his own ten points. Then they argued, cast out some proposals, refined others. After 19 false starts they got a document that satisfied them. The Republican caucus liked it ard adopted it. When they finally decided that the time was ripe to publish it, it won the private admiration of even most Democrats...
...hundred Congressmen met in caucus, demanded Congress be given full facts, battered away at Leon Henderson. Said Tennessee's Republican John Jennings Jr.: "... a smart aleck . . . dictator...
...secret the Isolationist command-some ten Senators, some 50 House members-met in the Caucus room of the Senate Office Building one night last week, gloomily chewed the bitter cud of defeat, gloomily decided that even a Senate filibuster was out of the question. Missing was their best strategist, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, who was out beating the bushes for some additional Isolationist recruits...
That meeting was the cold-soberest convention the Guild had ever held. Through five sweltering, grueling days, from early morning till after the bars closed, wilted, red-eyed delegates hustled from smoke-filled caucus rooms to committee meetings, to corridor corners, to tense, bitter floor debate in the grand ballroom...