Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 25 disgruntled House Democrats forced a party caucus which they hoped would send a committee to the President protesting against inadequate patronage distribution. Large blocks of Democrats in the Senate bridled at the President's St. Lawrence waterway proposal (see p. 15). And though no one talked seriously of his losing control of his huge majority, there were two rounds which gave the President last week the political thrill he loves...
Last week Father Coughlin was pursuing a course strikingly parallel to that of the inflationists in Congress. When Congressmen walked out from their caucus on remonetizing silver, they could have stopped at any newsstand and bought a copy of Mr. Moley's magazine Today, could have read in it an article by Father Coughlin earnestly advocating symmetallism (a cousin of bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve...
...Mills laid before other members of the Republican general staff tactical recommendations straight from the vanquished commander-in-chief at Palo Alto. On Herbert Hoover's advice, the Republican opposition decided to lie low during the early days of the Congressional session, planned not to call a party caucus until "errors of the Administration economic program" accumulate. It was hoped that dissenting Democrats would open a breach through which the Republican minority could begin a counterattack with its own legislative program, which was tentatively based on three lines...
...Curry, whose horse has been stumbling along to ignominy in the Gotham mayoralty race, demonstrated in the Albany caucus that Dr. O'Brien can be not only a joke but a joker. For he has Secretary Farley's vote on a resolution pledging unanimous support to regular and trademarked candidates of the Democratic Party. Although the perplexed secretary made awkward efforts to rule out the resolution, he was doomed to failure, for in a party caucus such a resolution is a conventional thing, and cannot be ruled out with any degree of urbanity. This makes his position as the godfather...
...Morgan hearings were held in the same caucus room, with its enormous cut-glass chandeliers, its baronial doors, its high windows overlooking a courtyard fountain. But now thick carpets covered the stone floor. On rows and rows of folding chairs sat the same sort of sightseers who had plowed their way in past bucking policemen. But now a loud speaker system helped them hear better. At the same long committee table sat elderly Senators, poking and prodding with questions to make the day's headlines. But now not one of them knew which way the evidence would turn next...