Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black students formed a separate black caucus on Thursday-the second day of the conference-and rejoined the main group only on Saturday night when they read their demands and walked...
...count by Republican leaders last week showed 54 Senators planning to vote against Haynsworth or leaning that way. Only 36 backed the taciturn South Carolinian. Ten remained undecided. To Nixon's chagrin, the opposition included 18 Republicans, among them Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Assistant Leader Robert Griffin and Caucus Chairman Margaret Chase Smith. Haynsworth's chances received a severe blow when Senator Jack Miller of Iowa announced his opposition. It was the first break in conservative G.O.P. ranks...
...count, no matter how well organized it may be, always strikes a newcomer as something like an especially chaotic county fair: children run about, ladies gossip, politicians caucus, and loudspeakers blare...
...runs the Republican policy committee, reports to the weekly luncheon of Republican Senators on White House sessions with G.O.P. legislative leaders, and holds the Tuesday afternoon Senate-press-gallery news conference that was once Dirksen's private preserve. Maine's Margaret Chase Smith heads the Senate Republican caucus and will speak for it when it meets. Assistant Leader Bob Griffin of Michigan steps in for Scott when the minority leader is off the floor, and also takes the party headcounts; that too was a Dirksen monopoly. Scott also hopes to give Griffin four or five head-counting lieutenants...
...unionized teachers were getting nowhere in contract negotiations with the school board of CarrolIton, Mich., a blue-collar suburb of Saginaw. Some of the teachers expressed harsh opinions in the junior high school lounge that they used as a caucus room. When board negotiators repeated some of their conversations word for word during the contract talks, they could not believe it was a coincidence...