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Across the committee table in the Senate's marble-columned caucus room, Wisconsin's pugnacious Senator Joe McCarthy glared defiantly at his tormentors. On the witness table in front of him lay the case histories with which he promised to prove his charge that the State Department was infested with card-carrying Communists and their friends. But for two days he had been too busy fending off the heckling questions of Democratic committeemen to spread out his evidence...
More in sorrow than in anger, steelmen stomped into the Senate caucus room last week. They were not there, as one of them said, to defend the latest boost in the price of steel (TIME, Dec. 26); they didn't think they had to. But they wanted to explain it to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report...
...Washington, Senate Democrats decided at a caucus to stick together behind Secretary of State Dean Acheson, though many were privately critical of his foreign policy in Asia. It was the Republicans who loudly demanded that something more decisive be done. Then last week, to the amazement of everybody, House Republicans teamed up with Southern Democrats and New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio to defeat a $60 million installment of economic aid for Korea. The vote...
...high-ceilinged Senate caucus room, a Senate-House subcommittee headed by Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas last week tackled three enormous questions: What is the fiscal policy of the U.S.? How can the U.S. manage its money better? And why will there be an estimated $5.5 billion deficit this year during the biggest boom in history? As a start toward getting the answers, the subcommittee got the views, in comprehensive questionnaires, of upwards of 450 U.S. economists, bankers and federal officials...
...votes were pledged at a secret caucus of the Cambridge Civic Association candidates--Crane was elected on the CCA ticket--who were successful in the recent Council election...