Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that day, as on many a day before and since, earnest, thrift-minded John Taber was snorting his wrath at Franklin Roosevelt, whom he always denounced as the wrong man to trust with a taxpayer's dollar. One day last week Republican Congressmen burst out of a party caucus as if they had seen a ghost, blurted to reporters: "John Taber's in there making a speech for Roosevelt." Mr. Taber calmly confirmed the rumor, furthermore gave notice that he didn't want any unnecessary strings tied to the $7,000,000,000 Lend-Lease appropriation...
...scene opened like a scene in Shakespeare. In the foreground were the citizens, restless and murmuring. They clustered against the marble walls, around the useless columns of the Senate caucus chamber. The huge room, musty, ill-lighted, full of rococo carvings and decorations, looked like a stage set for a Shakespearean stock company. As you went in, you could see only the citizens, crowding together, trying to see over the heads of the people in front, wisecracking about what was happening. There were 1,200 of them in a room built to hold 500. The blur of their comments rose...
...while last night it looked as if the Gottlieb wing would resign in protest against "obstructionist" tactics on the part of their opponents, but after a brief caucus it was decided to remain in the organization pending the referendum which must be completed in eight days
...term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings were transferred from the marble Senate Caucus room to the cozier Claims Committee room...
...sweltering night last week some 200 Senators and Representatives assembled in secrecy in the Caucus room of the Old House Office Building. In the darkness a film unreeled-without titles, without voices, with few sound effects. The Congressmen saw Nazi tanks push against concrete tank barriers, push them over as if they were so many tombstones. They saw dive bombers fire buildings with incendiary bombs. They saw nearly 100 parachute troops leap from three huge transport planes at an astonishingly low altitude. The film was an official German movie of the invasion of the Lowlands. There were few Germans shown...