Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willkie rolled up his sleeves. Business already knew him as a supersalesman; politics was soon to find it out. He made a speech to well-scrubbed Philadelphia Main Liners at the staid Academy of Music. He ordered fried chicken for G. 0. P. Negroes. He invited himself to a caucus of Kansans, had breakfast with Candidate James's hog-tied Pennsylvanians, and began raiding every delegation in sight, loose or tied...
...Canada the newly elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...
...high-binding comedy, the WNYC program was peerless. But to the Council's newly elected 1940 Democratic majority of 14, it was a pain in the caucus. One ancient City Father summed it up: if it took the aldermen over 100 years to make fools of themselves, the Council accomplished it in two. So last fortnight New York City's City Council voted, 13-to-7, to keep WNYC's and the public's nose out of the Council's business...
...Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...Once this referendum is passed upon our action will be very clear," Gottlieb said. "If we lose, there seems to be little future hope for the ASU, but our stand should be determined by what the Caucus members feel. If we win, the fight has only begun since those of us who were at the convention realize that the liberals must have an organizational framework if they are to exert their strength...