Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-eight hours after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles landed in Washington after his vacation in the Bahamas, he sat down in the crowded Senate caucus room last week to face the storm over U.S. foreign policy. In charge was Georgia's Walter George, who had called the unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright...
...critical as any caucus of dissatisfied commuters, the new team that last month took over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad took out last week after ex-President Patrick B. McGinnis...
...council majority of five independents could not agree on one of their number of the mayoralty. At a pre-meeting caucus at the Hotel Commander, they decided to vote for each other to demonstrated the unity of the group. The minority of four CCA members voted a solid "present" 24 times in the six ballots...
With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for-perhaps-the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race. No one announced that anyone was running, but there was a persistent clatter of hurrying feet in a sort of circle...
...swivet. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender said expansively that Talbott is known "as the most cussingest man in Ohio-but aside from that I do not know of any other impropriety." There were other Republicans who thought that Talbott should be summarily fired; a Senate party caucus broke up in total disagreement about what should be done. Capitol Hill Democrats, meanwhile, were gloating quietly, smiling at Harold Talbott, while skillfully leading him-with substantial help from Talbott-to the chopping block...