Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Morgan's time came. A Congressional joint committee of five members from each house, headed by Ohio's affable, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
Though there thus was no chance of vituperative cross-questioning, the unemployment investigation promised to remain on the front page. For Jimmy Byrnes & Co. last week sat back under the cut-glass chandeliers of the Senate caucus room to listen not to fusty professors or census takers but to the opinions of some of the biggest shots in U. S. industry on a subject which every small businessman loves to discuss...
...Democrats straggled into the great marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, all knew that one of two members would be chosen-but far from unanimously. Since the hour Joe Robinson was found dead with a bound volume of the Congressional Record beside him, there had been fierce fighting for his job. Friends of the two men lobbied on the funeral train. President Roosevelt took sides. He wrote a letter to ''Dear Alben" Barkley which referred pointedly to the fact that Mr. Barkley was now Acting Leader. A worried afterthought was the President's assurance...
...train pulled out of Washington when the politicians started and it continued, save for a few solemn moments in Little Rock, until the train pulled again into Washington's Union Station three days later. Every compartment where two or three politicians were gathered together was a caucus room. In every corridor statesmen buttonholed one another, making hay while the wheels clicked. Messrs. Keenan, Farley and West, the New Deal's top-flight liaison men, lobbied from dawn to dusk...
...bier in the State Capitol, lunched at the Little Rock Country Club where some of them took a dip nude in the pool (the few ladies in the building having been requested not to look out of the rear windows) before attending the burial. That evening the impromptu political caucus returned to its train and started back to Washington where this week a majority leader was to be chosen. One important new delegate was present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation in Texas. Before leaving Uvalde he succinctly announced: "Selection of a floor...