Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind of a story. Contrary to Washington belief, the Administration's civil rights bill was in for real trouble because of something called a "jury trial amendment" (TIME, May 6). Thus forewarned, McConaughy and other TIME correspondents sleuthed the progress of civil rights from secret conference to secret caucus to be ready and waiting to provide both the behind-the-scenes story and knowing coverage when the story broke into historic debate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Surprising Defeat, The Rearguard Commander, and Jury Trials & Contempt...
Meanwhile, the Senate got ready to pass its handiwork this week by a generous vote. It was left to Georgia's Dick Russell to administer the coup de grâce in grand style. The South, said he after a post-victory caucus, had decided not to filibuster against the bill as it now stands...
...began July 3, when Russell called his Southern colleagues to a caucus in his office, Room 205 of the Senate Office Building. The meeting was informal-no votes, no minutes. Not even the most trusted secretary was allowed in the room. "Well, fellows," he said, "I think there are some things we ought to talk about...
...Garfield Todd, the ex-missionary from New Zealand who is the colony's Premier, was indignant. "We are in danger of becoming a race of fear-ridden neurotics," he scolded. "In Southern Rhodesia, the spirit of Rhodes will pass from the land unless racialism is banished." Summoning a caucus of his dominant United Rhodesia Party, he told the legislators: "The vote must be "given to those Africans who have earned the right of being called civilized and responsible persons." His suggestion: Give the vote to all Africans who have reached "Standard Eight" level of education-corresponding roughly...
...solution of the issue, on terms which hot-headed Negro leaders had rejected four weeks before, was as simple and satisfactory as the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland; i.e., everybody won. The government-subsidized bus company, which started the trouble by upping its fare from fourpence to fivepence, would go on collecting the higher fare. The thousands of Negro bus riders, commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care...