Word: caucused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Baruch spoke in the high-ceilinged Senate caucus room before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee which was studying the President's proposed legislation. For three hours he testified, reading from a prepared statement, moving easily up & down the committee's table to catch their questions, waving a hearing aid in front of him like an antenna...
...reporter asked: Would Baruch take his proposals directly to the President? "No," snorted Baruch, who is no longer a White House intimate.* With that, he stalked out of the Senate caucus room...
Owen Lattimore arrived first with his wife, took a seat in the front row of the big, marble-walled caucus room in the Senate Office Building. He waved to friends, clasping his hands above his head like a boxer. Big Senator Joe McCarthy came in and sat down behind the committee table. By the time a rumpled man had taken his seat at the witness table, spectators filled every aisle, teetered and craned from the ledges around the walls...
...Owen Lattimore's turn to answer Wisconsin's blustering Joseph McCarthy, and the Senate's big caucus room was packed to capacity. A short, mild-looking man with a scraggly sandy mustache, Professor (Johns Hopkins) Lattimore settled himself down at the microphones at one end of a T-shaped table, plumped down a fat, 42-page statement in front of him, adjusted his spectacles. Then he fixed a cold eye on his accuser, who smiled indulgently on him from the ranks of distinguished visitors behind the committee table...
...slowness of Senate processes, and to keep his ulcers from acting up. In White House conferences, he gives President Truman an honest count, even when it is painful. He fought gallantly for the civil rights program, beat off crippling amendments aimed at ECA, even went to a Republican caucus to plead for a liberalized D.P. bill. Not brilliant, he is a slogging, dogged fighter...