Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, where his boxerlike countenance has become as much a part of the scenery as the Capitol cupola, Jenkins rumbled revealingly: "I walked out of the caucus room a little while ago, signed autographs for 30 minutes and was assured by quite a substantial group that they are interested in my continuing public service to this country as a Senator. If I had been bitten by the political bug and really desired to enter politics and quit private life, I should say the messages and communications I have received would be most encouraging." Translated freely from the Jenkinsese, this meant...
...extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...
...Those Louts . . ." For two hours the Liberals mapped their counterattack, then sent a flying wedge to break through the siege lines. The Liberals got Tsutsumi out of the caucus room, started hustling him toward the chair. Battered formations of Socialists, with sweat and melted pomade shining on their foreheads, barred their way. "Forward!" shouted the Liberals. "Stop them!" yelled the Socialists. "Help, help!" screamed the lady Socialists...
...crowded and hushed caucus room of the U.S. Senate Office Building, Tennessee Lawyer Ray Jenkins faced Secretary of the Army Stevens. Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon...
Private Snort. The caucus room coverage was smoothly professional. Under pool arrangements, it was ABC's turn to supply equipment and technicians. In a steaming mobile unit parked in the Senate building courtyard, Ed Scherer, a 25-year-old TV director for Baltimore's WMAR-TV, selected the best shots to be fed to the networks. After pedestrian coverage the first morning, the cameramen sharpened, even anticipated Joe McCarthy's points of order. Said one: "When he looks disgusted, we put our camera on him." At one point, McCarthy passed a scribbled note...