Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local reputation attacked. On the eve of an important election, his glass eye (the original was lost in a childhood accident) was found in the bed of a well-known lady. His political friends hastened to explain that they had used the room for a Socialist Party caucus and that Auriol's eye had popped out in a moment of oratorical exuberance. This happened to be the truth, but Muret's citizens preferred to believe a more entertaining account of how the eye got in the bed; delighted with their gallant representative, they elected him with a larger...
Muddle in Meat. Attlee was not so confident of his majority the following night when the Tories drove home their attack on the meat shortage. The Laborites squirmed, because their unity on this point was false and their consciences were burning. The day before, in a caucus of the Parliamentary Labor Party, they had turned on Food Minister Maurice Webb and berated him for incompetence. What were they to tell their meat-hungry constituents, they asked the luckless Webb...
...meeting became so explosive that Attlee stepped to Webb's defense, bringing with him the bogeyman that keeps all Laborites awake-the ghost of Ramsay Macdonald. Would Labor split on meat, and go down to defeat as Macdonald's divided party had in 1931? The caucus was stilled into grumbling acquiescence...
...George Marshall it was an old story. Under the bright floodlights in the marble-pillared Senate caucus room, he sat quietly, facing the microphone. But energetic Anna Rosenberg, seated beside him, making her first appearance on Capitol Hill as Assistant Secretary of Defense, was never still. She toyed constantly with her glasses, fluttered papers, jangled her heavy charm bracelets, restlessly tucked her hair up under her sequin-studded pink...
Attack in the Senate. Even before the Senate met, Southern Democrats showed their muscle. In the caucus to elect a new majority leader, they rejected Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who was backed by outnumbered and plaintive Fair Dealers; the caucus elected Arizona's Ernest McFarland, an amiable, inconspicuous second-termer who consistently breaks with the Fair Deal on civil rights. For the job of whip the caucus picked Texas' Lyndon Johnson, chairman of the Armed Services Preparedness subcommittee, who defies the Administration just as regularly on civil rights, labor, tidelands...