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...stylized as a Chinese play. Republican Senators Joe McCarthy and Karl Mundt exhibited a ceremonial horror at the kind of minor logrolling and back-scratching in which every politico, including many a Senator, indulges as unconsciously as he blinks and breathes. Stern old North Carolina Democrat Clyde Hoey, who was running the show, warned them several times not to belabor "chicken feed" points. Vaughan himself maintained an attitude of outraged virtue, and spoke at all times with the heavy-breathing sincerity of a brush salesman talking through a locked front door...
This was too much for members of the investigating subcommittee. Its members, thanks largely to the stern and judicial guidance of North Carolina's frock-coated old Clyde Hoey, had conducted themselves with rare restraint. They immediately released all secret testimony concerning Vaughan...
...ceremonies the night before, when Appling tied the Rabbit's record, Maranville-was on hand to congratulate him, Senator Clyde Hoey of North Carolina (Appling's native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
...himself still commanded the respect of many Southerners. Ohio's John Bricker last week brought up the old, discredited question of Graham's fitness to handle confidential information as an atomic adviser. The first Senator on his feet was North Carolina's conservative old Clyde R. Hoey. He disagreed, Hoey admitted, with many of Graham's principles. But, orated frock-coated, windy old Senator Hoey: "He is as loyal as any American who walks this earth ... no one who knows him would hesitate to trust him with any secret this nation might have...
...Hoey (N.C.) Can anyone point to any measure which would be in the interest of the American people which has been defeated because of the existence of this rule? . . . There is no citizen in any one of the States who cannot pay $1 or $2 a year if he wishes to vote . . . We hear many talk about segregation as if it were discrimination. . . In reality it is just the reverse . . . God made the different races, but He did not combine them. He did not consodidate them. He did not mongrelize them...