Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal to ordain women-a move that Hines had vigorously endorsed in his opening sermon (Allin was opposed). Although a majority of deputies apparently favored the innovation, the complicated system of bloc voting by dioceses resulted in the measure's defeat. The Episcopal Women's Caucus reacted bitterly. "We have been turned down not by God," they said, "but by the Episcopal Church...
...Labor Party has asked the American Civil Liberties Union to investigate Harvard's refusal to let the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), a Labor Party affiliate, hold meetings at Phillips Brooks House...
...election really was routine. The post automatically goes to the vice chairman, and alternates each year between a Republican and a Democrat. Last year the five-Governor Republican caucus chose Evans for a fundamental political reason that transcended all questions of race, creed, religion or national origin. Evans faced a tough re-election campaign in the troubled Virgins, and gaining the vice chairmanship boosted his chances...
...McGovern's comparing Nixon with Adolf Hitler and U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia with Hitler's extermination of Jews.* But what kind of political activity did he advocate? "Anything that was not considered immoral, unethical, illegal-or unprecedented in previous Democratic campaigns," Buchanan replied to sympathetic caucus-room laughter...
...third floor room in the Phillips Brooks House was the unlikely setting Monday night for a conflict between the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) and a group the police identified as De Mau Mau, a black Vietnam veterans group...