Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure to feel that canny Illinois politicians would not go so far out on a limb unless Stevenson would accept the nomination. It bore its first fruit the same evening when 32 Pennsylvania delegates announced that the Illinois governor was their candidate; Kefauver had 14 votes in the Pennsylvania caucus, Truman 11, Harriman only...
...effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously re-elected in a resounding vote of confidence in his independence...
Early that morning, the Minnesota delegation had met in caucus with Harold Stassen, favorite-son candidate to whom 24 of its 28 members were pledged. The delegation's loyalties, going back to the days before 1948 when Stassen was still a Minnesota hero, had become strained. There was strong sentiment for Eisenhower, who had rolled up an impressive write-in vote of 106,946 in the Minnesota primary. It was clear to most delegates that Stassen had no chance for the nomination, but Stassen was sharply disappointed about what he considered defections. When one delegate told Stassen...
...I.S.C.M. They had trouble getting their work performed at home, and wanted the same kind of "protection and encouragement" that the older generation had had. The delegates of Australia, Chile, Israel, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and the U.S. withdrew to a cafe and held a caucus. Their proposal, which the society later accepted: a five-man executive board to keep the I.S.C.M. going for another year. The average age of the new board members was 31-20 years younger than that of last year's officers...
Virginia's delegation had been counted eleven for Taft, one for Eisenhower and eleven uncommitted. At last week's caucus, there were indications that the shift was even greater than the three announcements indicated. The delegation named a Taftman to the credentials committee by a vote of 11-10, and elected an Ikeman to the resolutions committee by the same margin. The indication: a fairly even division between the two candidates...