Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intended to form a caucus of government graduate students, but people in all departments showed up for the meeting," David Stark, a first-year graduate student in sociology and a spokesman for the union, said yesterday...
...boast of having avoided new state taxes last year. He surprised even himself by rolling up 68% of the unusually light vote (less than one-fourth of those eligible) and swamping Farenthold, 47, a reform-minded liberal who is the national chairwoman of the Women's Political Caucus. Farenthold was a strong competitor in the primary two years ago, but this time she was hampered by lack of funds, and her campaign never caught fire. She is currently still running for office-alumna trustee of Vassar College -but has not decided on her future political plans in Texas...
Under present law, wage-price controls will die this week; and until recently congressional Democrats, under pressure from big labor, appeared willing to let them expire without a fight. But last week Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois called in the Senate Democratic Caucus for a limited extension; to his own surprise, his motion was adopted unanimously. A bill embodying his ideas has a good chance to pass the full Senate, though its fate in the House is uncertain. The bill would permit the Cost of Living Council to reimpose controls on companies that violate commitments they had made earlier...
Voters from the seventh and eighth wards will also caucus tomorrow at Phillips Brooks House to select their delegates to the district caucus...
...district caucus will choose four delegates from the congressional district to attend the National Conference on Democratic Party Organization and Policy in Kansas City, Mo., this December. A total of 62 delegates from Massachusetts will attend the conference...