Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice B. Gilbert, Radcliffe '49, is the new Northern New England Regional Chairman of the National Student Association--probably. She was elected at Madison, Wisconsin, after a brief caucus held on Saturday August 28, the last day of the N. S. A. convention...
Last week, with television and newsreel cameras whirring, Hiss and Chambers faced each other in the big, air-conditioned House caucus room. To Hiss, Chambers was still "George Crosley."* To Chambers, Hiss was Hiss-"the closest friend I ever had in the Communist Party...
Canada's Liberals held their first national nominating convention in 1919-before that, party leaders were picked in parliamentary caucus-and the leader they picked then has led them ever since. With the retirement of William Lyon Mackenzie King, they will meet next week to pick another leader...
Martin's support of Dewey was well known. But he had agreed in open caucus with his Pennsylvania rival, Governor Jim Duff, who was an anti-Dewey and pro-Vandenberg man, to hold the state's delegates together indefinitely and wait for some strategic moment to make their bargain. Now Ed Martin posed, sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys...
Bingo! That was what happened some three hours later, although the surrender was more disorderly than planned. Knowland had hoped to put Dewey over when California was called. He called the delegation into a floor caucus, which looked like a football huddle, and told them that Warren had released them. But before the balloting began, Knowland saw John Bricker lumbering up to the rostrum. With none of his usual forensics, John Bricker announced simply that he had a statement from Taft. "I release my delegates," he read from notes, "and ask them to vote for Dewey." Knowland was right behind...