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Faced with an unruly party caucus, Speaker Longworth was apt to rock back on his patrician heels and remark with ominous mildness: "Some of you won't be back here next year, and the roll call is going to show who some of them are." In a similar case, a small slit would open in Speaker Garner's cherry-red face and he would say: "There's no use fooling yourselves, boys. The old man's got four aces showing already. You can't possibly call." To face such a situation the best that Speaker...
...friend reports that during a great party caucus, or meeting of some sort, in Moscow, that when Stalin was scheduled to speak no less than four Stalins came onto the platform...
...Borah's inquiry was only the opening gun of a Republican bombardment. The Republicans had held a caucus and for once found themselves in some unanimity. The thing they were most unanimous about was that the $4.000,000,000 ought to be spent not later than June 30, 1936, instead of 1937 as specified in the bill. On that point their unanimity could do them no possible good, because the Democratic majority, disunited as they might be on other points, were united against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should...
...Tories led by Winston Churchill have attacked moderate Tory Baldwin for his bumbling virtues, which seem to them defects. Masterly inaction, they say, is going to cost Britain the loss of India, and with India the Empire will be lost. Last year Mr. Churchill fought Leader Baldwin in party caucus and lost...
...went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...