Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most likely, Graham will become a vocal member of the legislature's Black Caucus, and will remain, as always, independent...
After an inconclusive meeting of his Cabinet on the Kissinger proposal, Smith urged his colleagues to "sleep on it, and maybe dream about it." Next day they caved in. Then came a meeting of the Rhodesian Front's 50-member parliamentary caucus, which Smith characterized as "very pleasant, very constructive." Scarcely a week earlier, the party congress had voted resoundingly against majority rule. Now, in the wake of the Sunday-night massacre in Pretoria, as Smith's meeting with Kissinger was becoming known, they were asked to accept it-and they...
...situation is much the same in the House. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who lost Ways and Means after his Tidal Basin antics, is retiring. In a virulent outbreak of democracy, freshmen in the House Democratic Caucus last year forced the ouster from chairmanships of Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert (Armed Services), and Texas' Wright Patman (Banking) and W.R. Poage (Agriculture). All were replaced by Northerners...
WELLS COLLEGE (515 women; Aurora, N.Y.). At the 1972 Democratic Convention, Frances Tarlton ("Sissy") Farenthold, fresh from a defeat in the Texas gubernatorial primary, was nominated for the vice-presidential slot on the McGovern ticket in a symbolic gesture by the Women's Caucus. Her being chosen as the first female of Wells' thirteen presidents, however, was anything but symbolic. The school, which has a modest endowment of $8 million, needed someone of note to help boost sagging enrollment. On the job since March, Farenthold, 49, has made this fall's entering class the largest...
Last spring Griffin was sent to Iowa to round up the delegate votes that won that state's crucial caucus for Ford. He also ran Ford's successful campaign in Michigan and devised the plan for the President to whistle-stop through the state...