Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with the caucus room of the Senate Office Building where the midget sat on John P. Morgan's lap last June...
...with the Army's airmail operations, Hero Lindbergh was quite willing to tell Congress what he thought about the contract cancellations and pending legislation to restore the mail job to private companies. The morning he was to appear before the Senate Post Office Committee the ornate caucus room in the Senate Office Building was packed and running over with a crowd that left no one in doubt as to his popularity. Senatorial secretaries deserted their desks, streaked through the hallways, tried to elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked in more publicity than they...
...been expected, the first attempt of the Administration to fulfill its pledge to balance the 1936 budget is being welcomed with revolt in both houses of the legislature. This time, yes; the Democratic caucus will support the President and prevent a two-thirds majority over his veto of the amended Independent Offices 'Appropriation Bill...
Senatorial sponsor of the Legion program was Pennsylvania's David Aiken Reed, who last week before the Pennsylvania Threshermens & Farmers Protective Association announced his candidacy for reelection next autumn. More important, 20 Republican Senators in caucus had plumped for the Legion program. More important still, counters of political noses were sure that enough Democratic Senators would vote with the Republicans to pass the Reed measure. Most important of all, the House, which had passed the Independent Offices Bill under a gag rule, was virtually certain to side with the Senate when the measure was returned...
...Judiciary Committee's big chamber lacked room for the Birth Controllers. So all paraded to the huge marble caucus room in the House Office Building. News photographers prepared to take pictures. Comely Mrs. Hepburn, like her actress daughter, objected. Her dissent provoked a vote by the Committee: for photographs, eight; against, three. Mrs. Hepburn disappeared during the picture taking...