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Reference was to a sudden caucus of House Democrats early last week, designed to sink differences and combat with united front the lethally effective tactics of Minority Leader Joe Martin in blocking or steering legislation. Leader Martin's tactics have been simplicity itself: to keep his little band (ratio: 2 to 3) together until the disunited Democrats divide on an issue, then plug home a solid bloc of votes to which enough Democrats may add themselves to constitute a majority. Last week's proposed Democratic strategy was equally simple: to arouse Democrats, who have a 92-vote majority...
...legislative bodies informed about each other. Another $10,000 from Congress provides one of the juiciest bits of junket on the Washington political platter: an annual trip for a delegation to the union's meeting (last year at The Hague, this year at Oslo). A supposedly non-partisan caucus of the whole Congress picks the head of the delegation, who then, by hallowed custom, dishes out the junket to his party mates...
...electing four members to vacancies on the omnipotent Ways & Means Committee, the Democratic House Caucus voted most heavily for Representative Milton West of Texas, non-New Dealer, good friend of Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner and successor to his House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
...entire U. S. industrial system, "a vast and complex organic growth," was last week laid out on a long slab in the marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building for examination piercing and profound. Lest the gigantic creature cry out or have hysterics, it was at once given a general anesthetic. Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney of Wyoming, chairman of the Temporary National Economic Committee created last spring by Presidential message and joint Congressional action, had already administered repeated injections of soothing reassurance, viz: "This is not a punitive investigation. ... I don't believe in centralized planning...
Daily in the dingy caucus room of the old House Office Building railroad presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not pay the penalty. Meanwhile, the rival groups issued reams of charts, figures and opinions. Apex of the managements' campaign was a nationwide splash of advertising. Apex for labor was a 482-page, clothbound book (each copy stamped with the recipient's name in gold letters) dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and titled Main Street-Not Wall Street. Last week "Main Street...