Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electing four members to vacancies on the omnipotent Ways & Means Committee, the Democratic House Caucus voted most heavily for Representative Milton West of Texas, non-New Dealer, good friend of Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner and successor to his House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
...entire U. S. industrial system, "a vast and complex organic growth," was last week laid out on a long slab in the marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building for examination piercing and profound. Lest the gigantic creature cry out or have hysterics, it was at once given a general anesthetic. Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney of Wyoming, chairman of the Temporary National Economic Committee created last spring by Presidential message and joint Congressional action, had already administered repeated injections of soothing reassurance, viz: "This is not a punitive investigation. ... I don't believe in centralized planning...
...annual caucus of the Radical Socialist Party last week met at Marseille, disturbed by a great fire (see col. 1), but offering Premier Daladier a chance to address all France. Misnamed, the Radical Socialists are actually "moderates," are at the approximate centre of the French Chamber political spectrum...
Daily in the dingy caucus room of the old House Office Building railroad presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not pay the penalty. Meanwhile, the rival groups issued reams of charts, figures and opinions. Apex of the managements' campaign was a nationwide splash of advertising. Apex for labor was a 482-page, clothbound book (each copy stamped with the recipient's name in gold letters) dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and titled Main Street-Not Wall Street. Last week "Main Street...
...Madison, Wis., a hurriedly called caucus of State Democratic leaders chose State Senator Harry Bolens of Port Washington, Wis. to be their candidate for Governor. Reason: their primary-chosen nominee, Robert K. Henry, withdrew last fortnight hoping to help his Republican rival beat Progressive Governor Philip La Follette, who has been elected twice in three-cornered races...