Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pundits were reckoning without the Byzantine deviousness of Lenin (formerly Stalin) Prizewinner Pietro Nenni. One evening last week Nenni and Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti held a ceremonious meeting in a caucus room of the Chamber of Deputies. When they emerged after 90 minutes of dickering, the "unity of action" pact was a thing of the past, but Socialist-Communist collaboration was not. Instead Nenni and Togliatti had worked out a "new form" of relationship -another written agreement calling for "close consultation between the Socialist and Communist Parties both at the summit and at the base...
...elected three times, and by 1954 had clearly earned the dubious right to run against Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. for attorney general of New York. Some New York Republican leaders were reluctant to accept Javits because of his liberal record. Finally Tom Dewey arose at a party caucus that lasted until 4 a.m. "Who else," demanded Dewey, "have we got?" Javits not only ran against F.D.R. Jr., but he walloped him by 170,000 votes and was the only Republican on the state ticket to breast the Democratic tide. Manhattan's Javits carried upstate New York by nearly...
Nothing better illustrates TIME'S inflexible political position than its [Aug. 27] paragraphs describing the presidential candidates: from President Eisenhower came "the clear tones of a political leader turning squarely to the future" while TIME found Adlai "scurrying from caucus room to caucus room." We can be wearily certain that had Eisenhower had to solicit delegate support he would have "strode vigorously" in quest...
...military manpower, announced just when he was exhorting the Germans to rebuild their own army. But last week der Alte seemed once more the leader sure of what he must do. The Chancellor summoned the Cabinet, ordered his ministers to stop squabbling and get rearmament moving. He lectured a caucus of Christian Democratic Deputies, pointing out that the Suez crisis "illustrates the need for conventional arms and forces" even in the age of the hydrogen bomb. The U.S. had, he declared, "adopted a certain turning-away-from-Europe policy" which made the construction of a new army all the more...
Into the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room one day last week strode Republican Jacob K. Javits, the attorney general of New York. He was about to repeat in open session what he had just told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee behind closed doors: the charges that he had knowingly sought Communist help in furthering his career were false. The matter was urgent-both for Jacob Javits and the New York G.O.P. Five days later some 300 Republican committeemen were scheduled to meet in Albany to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Javits was the leading contender...