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Edward Asbury O'Neal III is no dirt farmer. A jovial man with a Southern planter's courtliness, he likes good clothes, good living and glittery functions. He habitually has two bourbon toddies before dinner and is equally at ease wielding a salad fork or a gavel ("Let's us folks give that gennaman from Miss'ippi a chance to say what's botherin...
...Banging Gavel. But before its final passage, interim aid had rough going. In the House, Republican isolationists had worked furiously to slash or hamstring the bill. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana led the attack...
...ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise to do some howling down himself. Joe Martin banged his gavel, barked out: "All in favor of passage of the bill say aye, the opposed no; the ayes have it, the bill is passed...
...Chairman Thomas' gavel whacked the table, a four-day parade of witnesses trooped to the stand. These were not publicity-seekers or Citizen Fix-Its; they were definitely recalcitrant. They wrangled angrily with the un-American Activities committeemen and were ordered down again. The witnesses followed a well-organized, prearranged plan...
...been a member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah Bessie: "General Eisenhower has refused to reveal his political party affiliation and what's good enough for General Eisenhower is good enough...