Word: caucus
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Already all but settled is the question of Sam Rayburn's successor as Speaker. Democrats are ready to elect Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, 69, when they caucus in January. McCormack was Democratic majority leader during all the years of Rayburn's speakership. He acted as temporary Speaker when Rayburn went home last summer, and by House tradition, broken only once in the past half a century, the majority leader succeeds as Speaker-and one thing Mister Sam left, beyond doubt, was a legacy of respect for tradition. McCormack already has commitments from all potential rivals except Missouri...
...Secret Caucus. The single major stumbling block to the final success of the conference was a touchy technical issue: how to review each nation's plans and allocate the Alliance for Progress funds. The original suggestion called for a board of seven "wise men" to sit in permanent session. The plan appealed to the small nations, but was violently opposed by Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Chile, who looked upon the board as an attempt to jeopardize their sovereign right to plan their own economic development. Caught in the middle, the U.S. delegation moved quickly to find a compromise, arranged...
...confess I am worried, but I am not afraid." Thus Prime Minister Harold Macmillan last week confided to a Tory caucus his feelings about Britain's deepening economic crisis. To the average Briton in pub and park, basking in the summer sun, there were few signs of anything even to worry about, let alone fear. Wage earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety...
...Congress had no intention of surrendering its power to write farm legislation. When Freeman refused to believe that obvious fact of political life, House Agriculture Chairman Harold Cooley called a caucus of committee Democrats to tell the Secretary to his face that they would not vote for his bill. "It was obvious," says one House leader, "that there were from seven to nine committee Democrats who wouldn't go along, and all the Republicans were against the bill." When Freeman still talked of victory, Cooley patiently took him around to see Speaker Sam Rayburn, who once more spelled...
With Phillips smiling broadly and "very satisfied with the results," the "ABC" forces of Alberg, Barber, and Bruce K. Chapman '62 retired dejectedly to discuss strategy. Earlier in the day Barber had promised to fight Phillips on the Council floor, regardless of the action in the caucus...