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...Showdown. On the morning of the showdown, Alben Barkley, wearing a black patch over his bad eye, called a caucus of Democratic Senators. For well over an hour he begged them to let the George Bill come to a vote first, pass it, and then vote on Henry Wallace's qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph...
MacLeish's inquisitor was Missouri's lame duck Bennett Champ Clark. MacLeish's offenses were the sins of liberal pamphleteering and rhetorical poetry. In the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room, he gamely, lamely countered the poking and prodding of his tormentor...
Call in the Band? The Senate voted (37-to-27) to throw the nominations back into committee. Tom Connally, deciding that the hearings might as well be open, engaged the huge, chill Senate caucus room (capacity: 400). Secretaries went hastily to work in the Senate Library, poring over volumes of MacLeish verse, culling choice lines for Senators-who had been speaking bad prose all their lives, without knowing it-to chomp aloud at the hearings...
...greatest pressure of all came from rank-&-file members of Mr. King's own Liberal Party. To Ottawa they had brought sobering news from every English-speaking province. In caucus, they told the Prime Minister that the people were outraged. The voters were asking: Does Quebec rule Canada...
...Edmundson revolters held a pre-convention caucus. For 90 minutes, there was talk of "union democracy." Then a scuffle broke out in the rear, and the chocking sound of fist meeting jaw. Lewisites swarmed over chairs, mounted the rostrum, demanded-and took-the floor. Edmundson left, forgetting his coat...