Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easy Go. Powell's pressing need for money was explained, in part, by a Damon Runyonesque witness: Wardwell Dexter, onetime bookie commission man, whose yellow, shortsleeved shirt brightened the somber Senate caucus room. Dexter related that Powell made racing bets by phone almost every day, averaging $100 or more daily for a time. Sometimes he did not pay the losses. One day he bet $1,500, and lost. "What was your relationship with Clyde Powell?" he was asked. "Unfortunate," replied Dexter, summing...
...before the filing deadline, party funds were down to about $300, and willing candidates were conspicuously absent. Then Muskie detected a budding of the grass roots. Says he: "Towns that had never held a Democratic meeting started calling state headquarters and asking, 'How do we hold a caucus...
...many people offering material to me [that] sometimes [I just] let them place [it] in my hand, sometimes just with the acknowledgment, 'Thank you very much.' " Winchell said that he must have got the secret document during the hearing while he was standing outside the Senate caucus room chatting with newsmen. It was just another piece of paper, said he, among the dozens that friends and tipsters passed...
Winchell recalled that later, inside the caucus room, when he looked at what he had been handed, he turned to other newsmen at the press table and said, "Gee, look what I have." Although he insisted that he could not recall who gave it to him, he was dead sure he never let anyone else read it. Instead, he went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who warned Winchell that if he printed the document the FBI would be obliged to arrest him. About eight or ten days later, Winchell testified, he burned the document and flushed it down...
...Corridor. Other newsmen who had often chatted with Winchell outside the caucus room during the hearings could not remember seeing anyone actually handing him the document. None of them volunteered to step up and corroborate or deny that part of Winchell's story when Committee Chairman Watkins offered them the opportunity. Last week, after his appearance on the witness stand, Winchell in his column offered another explanation of how he got the document. Wrote he: "In the corridor, some Good Fairy waved his wand and there it was, in my li'l ole pocket...