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Same day, the House Democratic caucus produced similar results. Bald, tough Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke a piece: Hereafter Congress would exercise a more potent and compelling voice in Government. But the Speaker carefully excluded the President from any criticism...
Test of Leadership. In the House G.O.P. caucus, called by stocky, old-fashioned Minority Leader Joe Martin, House Republicans faced their first big test. They were still a minority, but with the help of a dozen conservative Democrats they could carry any vote. This was the significant fact of the session. Were Republicans ready to share positively the responsibility of control? To the first Republican conference, Martin presented a general declaration of principles. These bound the party to nothing concrete...
WASHINGTON--House Democrats, mindful of the prospect of onslaughts from the greatly strengthened Republican bloc, met in caucus today and molded what they hope will be a delegation so tightly unified that their control over the chamber will not be jeopardized...
...Republican members of the House of Representatives last week unveiled a ' surprise Republican platform for the campaign of 1942. For the first time in several months the press found itself praising a statesmanlike stand by the G.O.P. Said the ten-point manifesto approved by a caucus of 115 G.O.P. representatives...
...members of this group, among the best Republican brains in the House, each drew up his own ten points. Then they argued, cast out some proposals, refined others. After 19 false starts they got a document that satisfied them. The Republican caucus liked it ard adopted it. When they finally decided that the time was ripe to publish it, it won the private admiration of even most Democrats...