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...annual caucus of the Radical Socialist Party last week met at Marseille, disturbed by a great fire (see col. 1), but offering Premier Daladier a chance to address all France. Misnamed, the Radical Socialists are actually "moderates," are at the approximate centre of the French Chamber political spectrum...
...Madison, Wis., a hurriedly called caucus of State Democratic leaders chose State Senator Harry Bolens of Port Washington, Wis. to be their candidate for Governor. Reason: their primary-chosen nominee, Robert K. Henry, withdrew last fortnight hoping to help his Republican rival beat Progressive Governor Philip La Follette, who has been elected twice in three-cornered races...
Last week Dr. Morgan's time came. A Congressional joint committee of five members from each house, headed by Ohio's affable, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
Though there thus was no chance of vituperative cross-questioning, the unemployment investigation promised to remain on the front page. For Jimmy Byrnes & Co. last week sat back under the cut-glass chandeliers of the Senate caucus room to listen not to fusty professors or census takers but to the opinions of some of the biggest shots in U. S. industry on a subject which every small businessman loves to discuss...
...Democrats straggled into the great marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, all knew that one of two members would be chosen-but far from unanimously. Since the hour Joe Robinson was found dead with a bound volume of the Congressional Record beside him, there had been fierce fighting for his job. Friends of the two men lobbied on the funeral train. President Roosevelt took sides. He wrote a letter to ''Dear Alben" Barkley which referred pointedly to the fact that Mr. Barkley was now Acting Leader. A worried afterthought was the President's assurance...