Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banzai, banzai, banzai," cried the members of the Japanese Diet last week as they bolted from the chamber, bound for beer and sake in their party caucus rooms. Premier Ichiro Hatoyama's government had just formally dissolved the Diet in preparation for the Feb. 27 general elections. The Premier, who is partially crippled, was wheeled up and down the corridors by his aides, beaming and shaking hands...
...faithfully support the Administration at this session, and 2) therefore wished that Ikeman Frank Carlson would place him in nomination for minority leader. Taking Knowland at his word, Carlson made the nomination. The G.O.P. conference selected Knowland as minority leader, Styles Bridges as policy committee chairman, Eugene Millikin as caucus chairman, and Lev Saltonstall as whip-all without opposition. Still to be chosen was a replacement for Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who is stepping down as Republican Senate campaign committee chairman...
After Old Nick: Hubert. The night before the Democrats held their official caucus, 19 New-Fair Deal Senators, most of them in a mood to stir up trouble, met with New York's Herbert Lehman. Agenda: discussion of an anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on this point would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends...
...Caucus in Bed. It was a dignified, simple ceremony, as the 84th Congress convened last week, and one that pleased Neuberger, who, unlike his senior colleague from Oregon, has resolved to be humbly uncontroversial for a while and to make a good impression on his fellow Senators. Since his election he had prudently declined nearly all of the 168 invitations to speak and appear on radio and television, in the tradition that Senate freshmen should be seen and not heard...
Then Neuberger quoted his old friend, Publisher Palmer Hoyt (Denver Post), on the fact that the Neubergers had comprised 15% of the tiny Democratic delegation in Republican Salem. "I've heard of politicians caucusing in a telephone booth," Hoyt had said, "but it's the first time I've known you could caucus in bed." Having run through his quips, the new Senator proceeded to batter those politicians who had resorted to "character assassination" in 1954-to the acute annoyance of Republicans in his audience. Washington's fleeting mood of bipartisan sweetness and light was jarred...