Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soapy") Williams, a group which North Carolina's old (82), formidable former Governor Cameron Morrison called "half-educated boys." Against them were such fierce old eagles as South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, who were politicians before Roosevelt & Co. could spell "caucus...
...Kefauver-Harriman strategists called a caucus at the Congress Hotel; F.D.R. Jr. seemed dazed. "Let's see," he rambled . . . We were dealed out and gaveled out of victory . . . Life is not always a bowl of cherries, but ... I promise you this: I'll be back...
Some support for Mr. Gallup's finding appeared last week in Chicago among politicians who could be considered highly sensitive to the divorce issue. At a caucus of the Massachusetts delegation, predominantly Roman Catholic, one delegate brought up the divorce question. Another said Stevenson couldn't be blamed for the divorce, because his wife divorced him. Said the delegate: "Hell, half of our wives would divorce us if they could." A roar of laughter swept the caucus room. On the third ballot, Massachusetts cast 25 of its 36 votes for divorced Adlai Stevenson...
...Louisiana delegation in a secret midnight meeting, caught by an enterprising ABC camera crew through a crack in the wall of the caucus room. ¶ Senator Paul Douglas, hoarse-voiced and face twisted with emotion, shouting for recognition on his motion to adjourn before the balloting could begin. ¶ Democratic Nominee Adlai Stevenson, emerging from the Astor Street house where he had waited out the convention's decision. For three days a modern journalistic army had bivouacked in the quiet, aristocratic street, setting up a battery of portable telephones and mobile TV transmitters, festooning the elm trees with dangling...
...particularly the bird-dogging floor reporters with walkie-talkies, who frequently were able to funnel the news out before the delegates themselves were informed. The convention standout: ABC's tenacious Martin Agronsky, who developed a knack for catching delegates eager to report the results of their most recent caucus...