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...Capitol Cloakroom (Sat. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Introducing the new Senators...
...were stripped from his successor, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...
...Capitol Cloakroom...
...McCarthy's subcommittee, was the first Senator on Capitol Hill who got a copy of the Army report, two days before the press did. Clutching it in his hand with one of his canes (he lost both legs in World War II combat), Potter went to the Senate cloakroom and got Illinois' Ev Dirksen and South Dakota's Karl Mundt, both GOP members of the subcommittee, to come off the floor. Potter showed them the report and, his voice all but strangled in anger, insisted that the subcommittee meet at once and fire Roy Cohn. Dirksen...
Meeting No. 7. Dirksen picked up the draft statement from its authors, repaired to the Senate cloakroom, where he huddled in Meeting No, 7 with McCarthy, Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...