Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peronista revolution has ended," Juan Perón announced suddenly last week to a caucus of Peronista Congressmen. "Now starts a new stage, constitutional in nature and free from revolutions, because revolution cannot be the permanent situation in a country." Therefore, the Strongman said, he was going to step out of the party and "become the President of all Argentines, friends and enemies." He promised, moreover, to "abolish all restrictions that we have imposed on the country" and give the opposition "all liberties within...
...Brooklyn Eagle, went abroad in 1940. For CBS he reported the war from Norway to North Africa, later covered Washington. Rome and the United Nations. Last week, after reporting the U.N. anniversary session at San Francisco for CBS, he went to Washington for a hearing in the Senate caucus room...
...Louisiana's Democratic Representative Overton Brooks organized 100 greedy Congressmen in a bipartisan rump caucus, blithely added $86,376,000 in home-district chitterlings to the Public Works Bill (which included the TVA appropriations) in one of the most blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends...
Into the U.S. Senate's buff-and-marble caucus room one day last week marched the New York Central Railroad's pink-and-silver Robert R. Young. Railroader Young was there to answer the questions of a Senate Banking subcommittee investigating the recent rash of proxy battles. The Senate subcommittee, headed by Wall Street Alumnus Herbert H. Lehman, wanted Bob Young to explain just how he had managed to win control of the $2 billion New York Central last year, and especially how he made his big deal whereby Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson cast...
...that stock save as there might be an equity if the market advances . . . That deal, which you described as clever, seems too clever by my old-fashioned standards." At one point, Bob Young could take it no longer. Bounding to his feet, turning to newsmen and spectators in the caucus room, he cried: "I would offer any of you gentlemen here the same deal-anyone in this room. Anyone that will come in with good credit and guarantee me against loss, I will be glad to advance them the money if they will give me half the profits...