Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although formal elections are not held until January, Deguglielmo was assured a majority of the city council votes at a Cambridge Civic Association caucus held before the council meeting. The Cambridge Civic Association candidates comprise five of the council's nine members. The mayor is a councillor, but also acts as titular head of the city and presides at all social functions...
...that the independents tried to combine against the CCA, they failed. This was in 1949. The independents lead by former mayor John W. Lyons (now publisher of the weekly Cambridge Courier), held a secret meeting at the Hotel Continental to plan campaign strategy. Spencer had an informer at this caucus who telephoned him information every thirty minutes. When the independents realized their plans were known, they dropped the idea of forming an anti-CCA league...
Most Republicans, though they thought little of Acheson, thought even less of the idea; only a few more than half attended a caucus to discuss it, and of those who did show up, 33 voted against it. But the rider was dragged on to the floor and furiously debated. Democrats belabored it. No one could say much for it, and one Republican -California's Donald Jackson-had some pointed remarks to make against it. He would gladly vote for impeaching Acheson, he indicated. But the rider was "a trial by attainder . . . which says, in effect, that no man with...
...dramatic thunder & lightning of the big MacArthur hearing had settled into a steady drizzle of repetitious questions and patient, repetitive answers. Testimony scudded close to the million-word mark, and there were still any number of witnesses and weeks of hearings to come. Crowds had thinned. The big Senate caucus room was no longer needed-the Senators moved the show into a smaller committee room...
...hearings began, nail-biting wire-service men based their first bulletins and new leads on snippets of information from the caucus room's white-haired Doorkeeper Gus Cook-mostly reports on who was talking and how many times MacArthur had lighted his pipe. But just 50 minutes later, newsmen got a pleasant surprise: the first pages of the censored transcript began to come through. Stenographers sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators...