Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud as Senator Henry Jackson or as brilliant as Senator Hubert Humphrey or as tough as House Democratic Caucus Chairman Phillip Burton. But he has a measure of real power in his committee chairmanship, and he talks quiet good sense in the ocean of babble. At 61 he looks 45, and he is three years along in a second marriage. He was once a high school teacher and then a builder. Now he is Baker, Ore.'s answer to Grand Rapids, Mich...
...campaign brochure was slick and soothing: "Bentsen. He dreams dreams. But he doesn't chase rainbows." In announcing his candidacy last week for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was nonetheless pursuing a decided long shot. He made the announcement first in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, then on the same day flew down for an instant replay for the home folks at Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American history ends...
...student caucus voted on February 9 to hold open meetings before each executive committee meeting in order to allow students not on CHUL to offer proposals to be considered by the committee...
...student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life heard proposals that CHUL endorse a boycott of Gallo wins and issue a statement supporting the suggestions of the DuBois Institute Student Committee (DISC) for the future of the institute, at its first open meeting yesterday evening in Grays Hall...
...American economic system is beginning to resemble the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland. Is it not something of a contradiction to cut taxes to facilitate the resurgence of buying power that will increase the demand for appliances and, especially, vehicles -and at the same time enforce a reduction in demand for the petroleum fuels that must drive the cars and power the machines that will manufacture the appliances...