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...bald, rich Joseph Caillaux, onetime Prime Minister (1911-12) master intriguer among the Left Parties. Torpedoist Caillaux sank the Sacred Union by forcing four of its members, including Edouard Herriot, to resign in obedience to a caucus of their own party, stampeded by Demagog Caillaux...
...buzzing in the Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment...
...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...
...Mellon suite conferences on drafting Coolidge continued to a negative conclusion. Next day, when Secretary Mellon endorsed Hoover at the Pennsylvania caucus and Boss Vare got a resolution passed alleging his right to a seat in the Senate,f newsmen snorted abusively that the Pittsburgh patrician's course had been dictated by the Philadelphia politician, that Secretary Mellon had been timid and vacillating, that his control of Pennsylvania was a myth, that Boss Vare was Boss indeed and that Hooverism had Boss Vare to thank for its deciding boost. As added evidence of the supremacy of Vare over Mellon...
Having sworn, the caucus approved a resolution calling upon the regency-which reigns for six-year-old King Mihai-to dismiss Aristocrat Vintila Bratiano and call to the Prime Ministry onetime Peasant Juliu Maniu...