Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats and Republicans alike began the week with caucuses to select party leaders. Texas' Lyndon Johnson described the Democratic Senate meeting as all milk and honey, while Colorado's Eugene Millikin said of the G.O.P. session: "There was not a single unharmonious feature." But there was some dissonance outside the caucus rooms of both parties...
...Deputy wanted to be the only one in his area to vote for German arms. The Catholics of the M.R.P. had already heard from their Christian Democrat colleagues in Germany and Italy (Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Italian Christian Democrats, made a missionary trip to Paris). In their caucus, "good European" Robert Schuman announced that he intended to vote yes, and was greeted by jeers from the unforgiving followers of Georges Bidault...
...Senator Byrd, called upon Senator Barkley . . . When Senator Barkley arose in the Senate to make the speech that ended with his resignation, he had already been assured by Senators Byrd and Clark that they had pledges sufficient to re-elect him. Accordingly, he was re-elected by the Democratic caucus next morning...
...respite in the racial and political tensions which have long troubled that land. South Africa needed a period of peace to attract much-desired foreign capital, and Malan maneuvered to have Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, a moderate member of the dominant Nationalist Party, succeed him. Last week the Nationalist Party caucus frigidly rebuffed Malan, rejected Havenga, and unanimously elected as Prime Minister a man with the racist principles of Adolf Hitler and some of the Nazi leader's demagogic frenzy...
...Labor Party, too, was in a bit of a scrape. The Attlee moderates had solidly outvoted the Bevanite dissidents to approve German rearmament in the party caucus, but in the House of Commons, Labor's leaders had ordered their members to abstain on the issue rather than divide the party over it (TIME, Nov. 29). Seven Laborites defied the order, six to vote against the Paris agreements, one to vote defiantly for them (he quickly became known as the only member of the Labor Party "who had the courage of Mr. Attlee's convictions"). Nervously, the Attlee leadership...