Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bird that could not fly. As U.S. Humorist Will Cuppy wrote: "The Dodo seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct, and that was all he was good for." Not quite. It was the far-from-dead Dodo in Alice in Wonderland who organized the Caucus-race...
...white knight Joseph Welch finally destroyed him. But few of us have any real sense of what the man was like. The stakes in the daily debates of the television spectacle that stretched through the early spring months of 1954, and the tension filling the Senate Caucus Room where the Army-McCarthy hearings transpired are, for us, forgotten...
...vote election as majority leader over Mississippi's Pat Harrison had come only with the all-out help of the Administration, and he had felt obligated ever since. But this was too much. Barkley resigned from his leadership post in a highly emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free man. Drury recalls the end of that caucus: "Suddenly the conference room door flew open. Again, there was that swift, mass rush toward it. Tall Tom Connally, with his long black coat, bow tie and picturesque long hair, lacking only...
...example, the nuclear testing resolution (which erased a former NSA condemnation of all testing by the United States), the resolution condemning the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and East Germany for suppressing students, and a resolution decrying some manifestations of progressive education were all substantially written by members of the conservative caucus and assed. On the other hand, conservatives successfully opposed proposals asking colleges to withdraw from the recent civil defense program, supporting federal aid to elementary and secondary education, and endorsing civil disobedience...
...that the other Common Market nations hope to achieve in negotiations with the U.S. Sixes & Sevens. The most explosive issue was a demand by a majority of Common Market nations that the community form a permanent committee to maintain consultation with Britain. After insisting that the Palais des Congres caucus room be cleared of advisers-including several ambassadors-Couve de Murville said furiously that Britain had been trying to undermine the Common Market ever since De Gaulle's veto. Said...