Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal caucus will be led at the meeting by Frank I. Goodman '54. William W. Cancelmo '54 will head the conservative wing...
Only one Athenaeum member, Robert Langston '53, remained an independent by not affiliating with either caucus...
Jacqueline Leonhard's first efforts to do something about all this got short shrift from her male colleagues. They not only kept voting her down ("My friends began calling me Four-to-One"), they once even walked out on her and held a caucus in the men's room. "It just burned me up," says she. "I told them that if they ever tried that again, I was going to walk right into the men's room myself and join the meeting." From that day on, the board began to realize that nothing was likely to stop...
When Malan demanded special powers to suspend all laws when he should feel like it, the British-dominated United Party began to protest. "Do you want racial equality?" the Nationalists inquired. The United Party caucus last week decided to give Malan dictatorial powers...
...however, that retiring Vice President Barkley was not really running anything. The man in charge was the tall Senator in the black cutaway standing front & center at the majority leader's desk. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had been elected majority leader unanimously at the Republican caucus. The only man who had once seamed a more likely prospect than Taft, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, became president pro tempore, a mostly honorary post which he could claim by virtue of his top seniority (16 years) among Republican Senators. California's middle-of-the-road William...