Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mini mis. Last week the case of Lilienthal and AEC became a matter for the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee's full attention. In the Senate's big caucus room, Chairman Brien McMahon, puffing on a cigar, ceremoniously took command...
Modest, homely Omar Bradley of Moberly, Mo., the Army's Chief of Staff, slipped on his steel-rimmed glasses in the Senate Caucus room last week and took a soldier's look at the North Atlantic Treaty. The diplomats and statesmen had argued out the legal niceties of the pact. Infantryman Bradley skipped the fine print and drove to the main point. In his mild, high-pitched voice, Bradley told the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee: "Our frontiers of collective defense lie in common with theirs [the other treaty nations'] in the heart of Europe...
...marble-walled Senate caucus room, crystal chandeliers shimmered in the kleig lights last week, and more than 500 spectators jammed together to see the show. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was beginning hearings on the North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb...
...Congressional Palace, where President Juan Perón's constitutional convention had sat idle for three weeks. Briskly, on orders from the Casa Rosada, the convention approved a final, edited copy of the new constitution-almost exactly as the President himself had read it to the Peronista caucus two months before (TIME...
...Republican caucus...