Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader Vic's in San Francisco, says Manager Rainer G. Baldauf, "two well-heeled customers are coming in where there used to be four, and four where there used to be six. I think this...
...free and easy remarks were merely signs of the relaxed and reflective mood that has come over the 87-year-old Chancellor now that he has finally made up his mind to give up West Germany's top job. Last week he offered no objections when a caucus meeting of his Christian Democrats authorized C.D.U. Bundestag Leader Heinrich von Brentano to canvass all the factions and suggest a candidate to take over next fall and lead the party in the 1965 elections...
Party Asunder. At that, another Conservative newspaper turned against Diefenbaker. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "This man cannot expect again to lead his country." At a stormy party caucus, Trade Minister Hees once more urged Diefenbaker to resign, demanded at the very least a promise that Diefenbaker would not campaign on a platform of destructive anti-Americanism. Diefenbaker seemed to agree, but then in his first TV speech, he angered the Cabinet rebels all over again with statements about "loss of sovereignty" and "domination...
Neglected Conscience. Next day, at a caucus of the ruling Christian Democrats and their allies, Adenauer chided Erhard mercilessly for presuming to seek control of the government. When the Cabinet finally voted on Adenauer's demand that the Franco-German pact be ratified immediately, Erhard's nein was overwhelmingly defeated...
...Committee Chairman Howard Smith, a Virginia conservative who remained rankled by what he considered a Georgia sellout on the Rules vote. Smith decided that even a liberal might be preferable to an apostate, and he led 25 or 30 Southern conservatives into the liberals' camp. In the Democratic caucus, the vote for the available Ways and Means place was 161 for Pat Jennings, the only liberal member of Virginia's House delegation, to 126 for Landrum. Since both Jennings and Tennessee's Bass are loyal Administration supporters, their election certainly strengthened the chances of passing the fiscal...