Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 1,200 sweating spectators had squeezed into the humid, marble-walled caucus room of the Senate Office Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
Bald Owen Brewster had his own series of events to relate and he spent more than an hour detailing them as Hughes hitched at his garterless socks, drummed his fingers on the arm of his chair, cupped a hand to his deaf ear, and scowled at committee documents which the Senator offered as evidence...
Hughes took the offensive again. He charged that the investigation's motive was to smear Elliott Roosevelt. He put white-haired Noah Dietrich, vice president of the Hughes Tool Co., in the witness chair. Witness Dietrich gave his version of a conversation with Committee Investigator Flanagan in California last March. He said he told Flanagan...
Investigator Flanagan, sitting nearby, reddened and asked for the chair. He said he had said no such things; any talk about Elliott or the Roosevelt family had been wholly Mr. Dietrich...
...Trick-Shot Artist." Back in the witness chair, Airman Hughes took off again. In scrawling longhand he had written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...