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Nobody in the District of Columbia was busier than President Hoover last week. Returning from the World Series baseball game at Philadelphia, he announced that he had summoned a Congressional caucus (see col. 3). On Tuesday he held a Cabinet meeting all morning, prepared a draft of his Super Plan (see p. 13) which he read to his visitors at 9 p. m. The meeting adjourned at midnight. Next afternoon President Hoover held another long conference with builders, financiers, real estate men-notably Clarence Dillon of the Manhattan brokerage firm of Dillon, Read & Co. and President William Aiken Starrett...
...amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill. He foils the efforts of catchpenny opponents to make him withdraw this wise legislation (by which the U. S. Government assumed war debts contracted by the 13 colonies) and is at last congratulated on its passage by a caucus of colonial celebrities including President Washington...
...election he was President Monroe's candidate for the White House. Against him in the Democratic party were arrayed John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson. Crawford men insisted that a Congressional caucus, as heretofore, should make the Presidential nomination. All others flayed the caucus as undemocratic, refused to participate. In the election Crawford was a poor third and the choice was thrown into the House of Representatives where Adams was elected with 13 States voting for him, Jackson getting seven, Crawford four. Historically the defeat of Crawford marked the end of "King Caucus," the beginning of a slow...
Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
...majority decisions of a caucus are binding upon all present; those of a conference...