Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first big show of the 81st Congress and Texas' florid old Tom Connally promptly fumbled his lines. He had moved his Foreign Relations Committee into the marble-pillared Senate caucus room. The hearing, Tom Connally announced, was "on the question of the nomination of Dean Acheson as Under Secretary of State." A murmur of correction ("Secretary!") rose from the press tables. Connally, beaming under the klieg lights, brushed off the advice: "He's still Under Secretary until he's confirmed." Then, after recalling that Acheson was still a citizen without public office, he added...
Last week Strongman Perón unveiled his secretary's handiwork. At a caucus of Peronista delegates in suburban Olivos, he explained his proposals for a solid 2½ hours. From a backdrop, San Martin the Liberator looked out upon the assembly; the shield of Argentina balanced his blown-up portrait. Only once did Perón break off: to introduce la Señora and her grey poodle, Negrita, to the delegates. When the Perón speech was over, most Argentines, well aware that the revisions would be steamrollered through next week's constitutional convention, wondered...
...Rayburn first went to work in his own party, got a Democratic caucus to curb the committee's power. After five stormy hours, the caucus decided that henceforth the chairman of any House committee which reports a bill will have the right to call up the bill for consideration by the whole House, after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days. Then, the plan was put before the entire House. By a voice vote the changes became...
...leader of the rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
...better or for worse, Bob Taft would continue to run G.O.P. domestic policy. A Republican caucus voted him back into the chairmanship. Lodge got the votes of only 14 fellow Republicans...