Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
...party caucus is a good way for congressional leaders-when they know they have a majority behind them-to swing a minority into line on legislative issues. But to hold a caucus without a majority is to invite a stinging rebuff; party discipline is shattered, and more often than not the leaders come out with less support than they had before. Last week the Republican leaders of the House called for a party conference to work up opposition to the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (the Eisenhower Administration was strongly on record against anything more than a 7.6% increase...
Last week, as the Dow-Jones industrial average hit a new high of 419.68, the friendly study got under way in the Senate caucus room. First witness was President G. Keith Funston of the New York Stock Exchange. Neatly turned out in a grey plaid suit, Funston started testifying nervously, polished off two full pitchers of water before lunch. But as he worked through his scholarly study of why the market has risen, he relaxed, realizing that he was indeed among friends. There were plenty of reasons why demand for stocks has gone up so fast, said Funston. Among them...
...side-taking began even before Craig was inaugurated. When the Jenner-blessed Republican state chairman called a Republican caucus to elect a Jenner man as speaker of the state house of representatives, the Craig forces countered with an earlier call for a caucus, and elected their own man. They nudged out the Jennerite state chairman, and transferred the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, a juicy patronage plum in Indiana, out of the hands of the Jenner-aligned secretary of state.* By that time Bill Jenner, with clenched fist, was telling reporters: "George Craig is only going to push...
Spoiled Campaign. The day after Malenkov fell, Britain's Nye Bevan made an uncharacteristically dispirited defense of his attempt to delay German rearmament and was defeated in a Laborite caucus by a decisive 23 votes. In Wrest Germany, where Konrad Adenauer had been forced to take to the hustings to argue for rearmament, the Chancellor now felt reassured. "The Russians should have waited just one more month," said Adenauer, "then they would not have spoiled the Socialist campaign so completely...