Word: galleryful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsmen and Senators have a joint technique about secret sessions. When the Senate bells jingle three times, Superintendent James D. Preston of the Senate Press Gallery shooes all correspondents out of the gallery, closes its big double doors, locks them with an immense key and, for good measure, props a...
When the secret session is over each correspondent hurries to find that particular Senator with whom he is on the most intimate and confidential terms. Senate rules prohibit, under penalty of expulsion, any Senator from revealing executive session happenings. It usually requires between ten minutes and a half-hour for...
That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret...
The U. P. and Hero Mallon were not without their strong defenders. While the Press Gallery seethed
One of the paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity...