Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dissension entered the otherwise harmonious sessions yesterday afternoon during confirmation of officers elected previously at a regional caucus of the NSA Madison founding convention. Chairman Lawrence Jaffa 2 Div was unanimously reelected. But Miriam Haskell of Smith, was replaced in a 32-20 vote by William Tracy of Springfield College, as the second spokesman for the region on the organization's national executive committee...
More than 1,200 sweating spectators had squeezed into the humid, marble-walled caucus room of the Senate Office Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
Stanley Karson '48, chapter chairman and the only one of the ten delegates who did not support the Independent Progressive caucus, was questioned by several members. They wanted more information on the group he joined which was organized the day before the convention in order to bridge a gap between the United AVC caucus and the United Progressives...
...potatoes' face this convention? The famed Red Question is not likely to flare into the open, although candidates for office are making quite clear the nature of their attitude toward alleged Communist Party divisionist tactics within AVC. At this premature point indications are that the so-called "party line" caucus controls far smaller minority influence than at last year's parley. There are predictions to date that its chief efforts will be concentrated upon the election of Norris Holferd of California to the post of chairman, and of Franklin Williams of New York, currently a National Planning Committee member...
...presided over by delegation chairman Reginald Zalles 2G, named four voting representatives and their three assistants, and left Richard G. Axt '46 free to carry out duties contingent to his appointment as Executive Field Secretary for the AVC Massachusetts State Council, announcement of which was made at yesterday's caucus...