Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the days of Woodrow Wilson the House of Representatives has been fair game for press photographers working from the gallery. Commonplace are newspictures and newsreels of joint sessions of Congress in the House Chamber being addressed by U. S. Presidents, of opening and closing sessions of the House by itself, of the full galleries and the empty floor. The Senate, on the other hand, has never permitted itself to be photographed in action. Like a dignified gentlemen's club, it has successfully enforced an unwritten rule against cameras by having hawk-eyed gallery guards confiscate them on sight...
...Senate session. Next to him sat Arizona's white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood Representatives who had come over from the House to watch...
...raping and murdering a middle-aged schoolteacher. Thoughtful Paul Voigemast reserved decision, entered into a long correspondence with the faculty of Dorpat University on the subject of fast-working, pleasant poisons. Finally Paul Voigemast chose a cup of diluted potassium cyanide. Last week he was led to the death chamber, offered the cup. His hand took it steadily. Without expression, he drained it, shuddered, took in one long hissing breath, fell down dead, all within the required five minutes...
...Alabamian and an anti-utilitarian, he played second fiddle to Senator Norris on the long Muscle Shoals sonata. He got his fellow Alabama veterans costly favors. He picked up the 30-hour-week idea and, to the great delight of Labor, brandished it menacingly about the Senate chamber. In 1933 he got his 30-hour-week bill passed by the Senate amid a great spatter of headlines. Then came NRA which also promised short hours, and Senator Black adroitly sluiced his 30-hour-week following in behind it. Until NRA proved unpopular, he claimed, with some justice, that...
Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor once got a virtual bouncing for daring to enter the ornate President's Room where Senators and newshawks confer. But while the Spanish War pensions bill was pending in the Senate, gallery spectators observed another veterans' lobbyist in the Senate chamber itself, not merely sitting on the lounges in the rear but brazenly occupying Senators' seats. As a onetime (1925-27) Senator from Colorado, big. white-haired, black-browed Rice William Means had a right to be on the Senate floor. As tactful lobbvist-in-chief for United Spanish War Veterans...