Word: caucused
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Both Wets and Drys were satisfied with the new denaturant. Said the Dry Caucus assembled at Washington (see p. 9): "Prohibition carries no mandate to drink and, therefore, if the new denaturant has all the effects of a sea voyage, it is taken at the option of the drinkers...
Acting Prime Minister Fenton and Acting Treasurer Lyons had called a party caucus in Canberra to approve the Government's program of cutting expenditures, raising taxes and paying off by conversion $135,000,000 in loans which fall due next month. The first two items of this program passed, but then the "wild men" gained control, stampeded through the caucus a resolution respecting the $135,000,000 loans which Acting Treasurer Lyons vainly denounced as "simply repudiation...
...London next morning Australia's Scullin admitted "the position is serious," but stoutly denied that his Government would ever embark on a policy of repudiation. He seemed ready to defy, if necessary, his party's will as expressed by the caucus...
Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett, the Conservative leader, is a "new" man, 60 years old. He has never been Prime Minister. He won his leadership at the Conservative Party caucus of 1927, after Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen had been forced out of office a total failure...
Obedient to the Trade Union Congress the Labor party, according to announcements last week, will debate the baby dole" at their October caucus...