Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevens lay an unseen mountain of bitterness rising from the drafting into the Army of G. David Schine. the golden boy who became an unpaid consultant to McCarthy's committee. To judge the charges and countercharges, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee met last week in the marbled caucus room of the Senate Office Building...
...junglelike clutter and heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss...
Audience Apathy. At least during the early stages of procedure wrangles in the caucus room, the size and enthusiasm of the TV audience were well below expectations. Hooper ratings showed that only about 11% of New York City homes with TV sets were tuned to the first two days of hearings-one-third the interest of the 1951 crime show. Trendex and other pollsters found the same audience apathy in other cities. In California, where the afternoon sessions arrive at lunchtime, restaurants reported a marked but not serious customer shortage. In Toronto, interest was greater than in most U.S. cities...
Martin's weapon was President Eisenbower's outspoken opposition to the raise in exemptions. While the White House kept its representatives away from Capitol Hill, Martin and his men worked on the mavericks in small conferences and, finally, in a record-breaking caucus attended by 201 House Republicans. Again & again, Martin pounded home some simple facts: Dwight Eisenhower is the party's great political asset and those who go against him on this key tax issue can hardly expect to ride his coattails this fall. The argument was persuasive; one by one most of the strays drifted...
Last week, bundled up in a black coat and wearing a pair of frayed white gloves in honor of the occasion, Mrs. Moss patiently took the stand in the Senate Caucus Room and denied again that she was or ever had been a Communist. Senator McCarthy promptly left the room wearing an expression which indicated that he had no time for such trivial matters. But his long-suffering colleagues turned the resultant hearing into a loud and emotional attack on their own chairman's methods...