Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important political event in the U. S. since the election of Nov. 3 took place last week at a private luncheon and caucus of 24 of Pennsylvania's 27 Democratic Congressmen in Washington's Hotel Mayflower. Host was Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Newshawks hovering about the doors of the suite waited for someone to break the news of what had happened. First to emerge was Representative J. Burrwood Daly of Philadelphia. He cut questioners short...
...Cheney of New Hampshire and James Irwin, stanch pluggers for Colonel William Franklin Knox. Right after breakfast they set out to see what last-minute hope there might be for their man. Their reward was a 74-to-1 vote for Knox at the Pennsylvania delegation's morning caucus. That made the Vandenberg acclamation impossible. The rest was easy. At the Convention, Governor Bridges nominated Colonel Knox, Chairman Snell read the Vandenberg message, and the acclaim fixed for the latter went to the former...
...money, it is boosting the construction and other heavy industries back to normal. At the White House last week President Roosevelt, who is sold on Harry Hopkins' quick jobmaking, said NO to this Congressional group, refused to haggle over a $400,000,000 compromise. Calling a Democratic caucus, the bloc was voted down, 70-to-53. When Leader Beiter rose in the House and offered his earmark as an amendment to the bill, he was ruled out of order. At that, the hopes of the bloc and Secretary Ickes expired. The PWAdministrator promptly foreshadowed the end of his organization...
After a week-end caucus it was as clear as anything ever is in French politics that Socialist Blum would head the incoming Popular Front Government. In a speech to his followers which sounded not unlike President Roosevelt's inaugural in 1933, he declared: "In a battle like the one in front of us now a chief is needed. He must have full power. . . . Let us be wise, but let us be bold." As to financial crisis, M. Blum declared: "It is not so serious as war, unemployment or misery." And he referred to devaluation as something "to which...
Inquisitive young men, professional peace lovers, retired businessmen, pretty maidens, frumpy matrons, distinguished-looking Negroes, seedy individuals who frequent places of political excitement, occupied half the spacious floor of the barnlike Senate Caucus Room one morning last week. As representatives of the People, on neat rows of chairs, they sat silent and well-behaved, staring at the hurly-burly in the other half of the room...