Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...
...namesake was kept on the stand as much as possible though he could give few details. To get an accurate account of transactions Partner Whitney had to bear the brunt of questioning. When the house had been sold out for three successive days, the show moved into the Senate Caucus Room, largest available. Said Senator Glass: "All that is lacking is peanuts and pink lemonade...
...best features of the English pub or alehouse, and the tavern. Since this would be a vital part of the life of the college, it should have some official sanction. The proprietor would be elected by the graduates, or by representatives of the students and faculty in caucus, or perhaps he should be some sort of self-perpetuating body, to insure stability and quality in the cellar-stock...
...take this opportunity of presenting my book "The Angels" to your most enlightened and courageous body, the Harvard University students, on condition that it is read in open caucus and discussed by the said august student body in the following manner...
...President's economy bill reached the Capitol before the veterans' lobbies could get into action. House Democrats promptly caucused, with their leaders bent on pledging their huge majority solidly for the measure. But, as always, pensions spawned mutiny. Tennessee's hulking Browning, A. E. F. field artillery captain, induced the caucus to adopt an amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill...