Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mahoney--an M.I.T. professor who runs under the slogan "Professionalism in Government"--emerged from the caucus with a "Memorandum of Understanding" agreed to by the five. It called for a 90-day nation-wide search for a new manager, who would be required to have at least five years experience in municipal management...
Hayes and Alfred E. Vellucci (the just-elected vice-mayor) then clashed over an alleged bargain made at a caucus which they and the other three "independent" councillors attended prior to the election of Sullivan as mayor. Vellucci claimed that DeGuglielmo, speaking through Hayes, had agreed not to ask for public hearings on the dismissal motion. In return, none of the independents opposing the manager would call for a special meeting to speed his possible removal...
Hayes denied that any agreement had been made to forego hearings and said it would have been "presumptuous" of him to speak for DeGuglielmo, since he had no contact with the manager during the caucus. In reply, Vellucci roared, "You left that room many times and I don't know where you went...
...might have been easier if they'd given him a gold watch. But Canada's Liberal Party caucus, at a farewell party for retiring Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, 70, decided that what the P.M. and Wife Maryon, 64, really coveted was a couple of "skidoo outfits"-explorer-like garb suitable for skimming about on snowmobiles. It wasn't half as squirrelly as it sounded, as the Pearsons are avid skidooers. They donned the quilted jump suits on the spot, and Pearson said he intended to stay thus well insulated "from now on until April"-when...
...Class Marshals, in caucus with the Senior Class Committee, have elected Stephen M. Waters of Quincy House and West Hartford, Conn., as Class Secretary, and Philip A. Keith of Kirkland House and Dover, N.J., as Treasurer...