Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) Through the cloakrooms and corridors outside the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives the seam-faced, stumpy, blue-eyed man moved restlessly, relentlessly. Trying to collar enough votes to sustain the presidential veto of a budget-busting. Democratic-sponsored rural electrification bill, he took fresh aim at each of his Republican colleagues. To one he snapped: "Don't you forget that in 1960 you're going to have to run on Eisen hower's record." To another he appealed: "This is a straight political issue. Are you going to let the Democrats get away with...
...advancement. In 1934, with the New Deal tide at its crest, the Congressman from Halleck's Second District died just nine days after the elections. Charlie Halleck went after the job, campaigned furiously, squeaked through by 5,000 votes. On the day he first walked into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, the G.O.P. side of the aisle rose, cheering: Halleck was the only Republican member of Indiana's historically Republican delegation...
...professional failure but of holding "imprudent" attitudes toward segregation. Shocked at the suggestion, the board's three moderate members walked out, began boycotting board sessions. Around them rallied some of Little Rock's most respected groups, including the P.T.A. Council, the ministerial alliance, and the Chamber of Commerce board...
...accident of geography has made Don Reid the nation's busiest death-house-beat man. Huntsville has Texas' only execution chamber (electric chair) and, as a wire-service stringer, Reid has been watching men die since 1937. Milton Williams was the 158th-a total Reid believes to be a record for U.S. newsmen. For many of the men, Reid is the only visitor. He has written letters to their wives and mothers, once shipped a body back home to Indiana. He has twice saved men by persuading officials to reopen their cases, has been begged by longtime dwellers...
...rape of a 16-year-old Negro girl-but that did not make his 158th execution easy. With prison officials, Reid sat down to the traditional Texas execution eve "breakfast" (scrambled eggs, pork chops, coffee), later leaned casually on a rail, notebook in hand, as Williams entered the execution chamber. But another reporter noted that Reid pursed his lips as Williams took the first 15-second 1,800-volt jolt. The reporter later asked Methodist Reid, "Were you praying then?'' Answered Reid: "I always pray...