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...Congressional Caucus", Professor Holcomba, Harvard...
...committee moved its hearings back to its own quarters because not enough Wets had been present fortnight ago to fill the House Caucus Room (TIME, Feb. 24). The small committee room was crowded with 300 ardent spectators. Its air grew hot and sour. Thirty newsmen scribbled rapidly to keep pace with the flowing testimony of Wet witnesses. Idaho's Dry Senator Borah dropped in but, after hearing the audience applaud a particularly violent denunciation of the 18th Amendment, hastily withdrew. He, like others, knew that all the Wet noise would not sway a Dry Congress into relaxing...
...first official hearings given by the House to proponents of modification (TIME, Feb. 10). The Judiciary Committee had before it seven resolutions proposing repeal of the 18th Amendment, of the Volstead Act. Anticipating a large audience, Chairman Graham moved his committee temporarily into the vast white marble Caucus Room of the House office building. Some 200 spectators appeared, more than half of them women. Though their numbers looked measly in the great Caucus Room, their noisy applause far exceeded their size...
...Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition first held a special caucus-of-war at the headquarters of Field Marshal Simmons. They decided to reverse their strategy of last Spring limiting tariff fighting only to the Farm Lowlands. They consented to give the regular Republicans battle all along the tariff line, with a view to beating down with their rifle butts all industrial rates that dared pop their heads above the present trench level...
...giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever perpetrated." Last fortnight he plumped out brazenly for the "spoils system" of party patronage (TIME, June His votes are highly independent; he never attends a Democratic caucus. Impartial observers rate him thus: No constructive legislator, in a large sense, he nevertheless gets things for South Carolina (jobs, public buildings, waterway developments, a new judicial district). He frequently says what many another Senator thinks but dares not utter. He is more of a Senate character than a Senate...