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...been around the House long enough (24 years) to know better, shouted "idiot" at Nebraska Republican Arthur Miller. Speaker Sam Rayburn was determined to enforce decorum before his 89 freshmen could pick up such uncouth habits. He got the House's Emily Post, professorial Representative George Dondero of Michigan, to lecture the boys...
...Dondero's don'ts: don't smoke behind the rails or chew on unlighted pipes or cigars; don't park feet on the top or back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...
Though Representative Dondero didn't say so, there was an even simpler way than reading newspapers and gabbing to avoid listening to speeches in the House, That was to stay away. Only about 40 of the 435 Congressmen were on hand when Dondero spoke...
...rose Michigan's punctilious, little-known Congressman George Anthony Dondero, 59, to tax his fellow Congressmen for their manners. Out went cigars, down went newspapers and cocked feet as he cried out against smoking, reading, foot-cocking, and the horrid practice of calling one's fellow statesmen by their first names. Two year ago dogged Congressman Dondero made virtually the same speech...
...original letter my grandmother wrote to Lincoln was believed lost until about seven years ago. Then a Mr. Dondero, member of Congress from a Michigan district, acquired it from descendants of Lincoln...