Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, Byrd told newsmen, he would have avoided the contest if Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia had died before the party caucus started in mid-morning...
Byrd, who has made a career of doing favors for his colleagues in the number-three leadership job, out-counted Kennedy in a showdown decided 31 to 24 by secret ballot in the caucus held just before the 32nd Congress convened...
Then the situation altered. The Liberals lapsed into a curious silence, while the Conservatives followed through with their honeyed pitch. They hinted at important committee appointments should Palmer caucus Conservative. Essentially following his own political leanings, on November 30 Palmer finally cast his lot with the Conservatives...
Kinsolving was forbidden to ask questions at a black-caucus press conference. He was undeterred. When the convention voted new ground rules for church funding of militant groups (TIME, Nov. 2), he wrote a melodramatic piece arguing that under the new rules the Episcopal Church could have funded Al Capone...
TOWARD the end of last month, the leaders of Israel's governing Labor Party met four or five times in Tel Aviv to discuss the problems that would confront the country during the 1970s. The last of the meetings was a secret caucus at the home of Tel Aviv's mayor, Yehoshua Rabinowitz. Three faces were missing. Premier Golda Meir had purposely absented herself. Pinhas Sapir, Israel's Finance Minister and the party's powerful kingmaker, was traveling on government business. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had not been invited. The consensus of the meeting, after lengthy...