Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door−two dark young men and an attractive woman−were just three more visitors to be admitted to the half-filled spectators' gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives. Timidly, they asked if they might go into the Ladies' Gallery and watch the Congressmen at work. "You got any cameras?" asked Elgin. The three said they had not. He motioned them through the swinging doors...
...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...Jersey's Charles A, Wolverton remained standing. Said he: "I didn't fall. I just stood there. There was no place to go because the floor was full of Congressmen." Added Representative George Long, brother of the assassinated Huey: "Someone behind me yelled, 'Those are just in play.' I said, 'The hell they are. Those are bullets.' So I got behind the Speaker's desk." When the woman directed her fire toward him, Speaker Martin pressed back behind a column...
...just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
...Guard officer who rose to general's rank in World War II; of a heart attack while on a hunting trip in Bavaria, where he was stationed as commander of U.S. Army troops in southern Germany. A rock-hard disciplinarian, he drew heavy fire from mothers, wives and Congressmen in 1951 for his rigid handling of his 43rd (Connecticut National Guard) Division, and later, in Germany, set off more outcries by his zealous efforts to stamp out drinking and promiscuity (he had a lieutenant colonel cashiered for drunkenness and adultery...