Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa was back at the old stand-the witness stand in the Senate caucus room in Washington, confronted by a few of his sorely tried inquisitors: Arkansas' weary, sardonic Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Senate labor rackets investigating committee ; New York's finger-waggling Senator Irving Ives; and Hoffa's most implacable enemy, Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, 32, who would give his celebrated forelock to see Hoffa jammed...
...roaring chorus, the 173 Afrikaner Nationalists gathered in the shuttered caucus room broke into the old Dutch hymn, Let God's Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs...
Last week, speaking to a closed-door caucus of his Republican Party in Lahore, Prime Minister Noon let it be known that there was something more to his remarks than that. By promising "active cooperation'' with other Moslem countries. Noon hoped to cut the ground from under the opposition leaders who charge that Pakistan has "sold out" to the "Anglo-American bloc." He was not turning against the West exactly, but was inching closer to Nasser's Arab nationalism. If Iraq wants to merge with Nasser's United Arab Republic, he asked, "what reason...
...witness in the packed, TV-floodlighted Senate Caucus Room trembled with fright as he told his story to stern-faced Senator John McClellan and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with...
...order to amend, and last week, as the House armed itself for debate, House Republican Leader Martin dutifully carried out the orders with the reluctant help of Illinois' Les Arends. ranking Republican member of Vinson's committee. Joe Martin took one more step: he called a G.O.P. caucus and laid out the party line, reported afterward that 95% of the Republicans would go along with the amendments...