Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarreling Politicos. In a caucus last week, the divided Christian Democrats fell to arguing bitterly. One of them reproached Amintore Fanfani for insisting on a showdown in the Chamber of Deputies even when it was clear he would lose (TIME, Feb. 8). Fanfani in reply cast a reflection on his critic's political past. The critic recalled hotly that Fanfani had once been a Fascist Party member. Fanfani next had words with his immediate senior in the ranks of fallen Premiers, Giuseppe Pella. Pella, said Fanfani to the caucus, had told him that politics was "such a dirty business...
...Edgar Hoover and Herbert Brownell strode into the red-carpeted U.S. Senate caucus room in Washington to answer these questions. Hoover's appearance caused a sensation. As all of Washington knows, the FBI chief intensely dislikes testifying in security cases and might not have done so except to protect the FBI against the implications of Truman's speech...
...Caucus leaders of the group agreed last night that all members will meet a half-hour before their Sunday debate to pick their own side of the question, "Is Har-Sabotaging its Football Team...
...meeting will be held Sunday at 7:45 p.m. in Mallinckrodt MB-9. Austin Lake, sports columnist of the Boston American will present his views, but debate among the members will follow lines decided at the pre-meeting caucus. According to Hugh J. Schwartzburg '54, member of the Athenaeum Board of Governors, a number of members are prepared to defend some sort of subsidation of football players to improve the team...
Officials of the group announced last night the formation of an Independent caucus within the Athenaeum. Meeting Sunday in Phillips Brooks House, the Independents elected the following officers: Chairman, Robert Effros '54; vice-chairman, John Rodman 1L; and Charles Talbert '54, recording secretary...