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...take this opportunity of presenting my book "The Angels" to your most enlightened and courageous body, the Harvard University students, on condition that it is read in open caucus and discussed by the said august student body in the following manner...
...spirit of Congress was new, its mechanics were as old as the U. S. Proceedings began in the House with the election of Illinois' white-thatched Henry Thomas Rainey to the Speakership as a result of last fortnight's Tennessee-Texas-Tammany deal in the Democratic caucus. He got 302 votes to the 110 cast for his Republican opponent, New York's Snell&3151;an immediate demonstration of the Democrats' margin of House control...
...President's economy bill reached the Capitol before the veterans' lobbies could get into action. House Democrats promptly caucused, with their leaders bent on pledging their huge majority solidly for the measure. But, as always, pensions spawned mutiny. Tennessee's hulking Browning, A. E. F. field artillery captain, induced the caucus to adopt an amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill...
...three-way deal dominated the caucus from the start. Withdrawing from the major contest, Representative Byrns nominated Representative Rainey for Speaker after which Representative Rainey nominated Representative Byrns for majority leader. Tammany, always partial to a winner, swung its votes behind the Rainey-Byrns ticket in return for the appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated...
...threats that President Albert Lebrun would dissolve the Chamber and order an election unless the Socialists, by withdrawing their opposition, made it possible for his Cabinet to raise the general French income tax rate 10% and cut the salaries of civil servants receiving more than $470 yearly. Meeting in caucus, the Socialist Party split, the majority faction bolting away from Party Leader Leon Blum. Famed as a Cabinet killer, M. Blum overthrew Premiers Herriot and Paul-Boncour. He favored overthrowing Premier Daladier last week. Paris grew feverish with excitement as midnight neared. The last day for voting credits to tide...