Word: holifield
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...microphone, hurled by California's Congressman Chet Holifield, s lithered down the long committee table. "I demand it be cut off!" Holifield shouted...
...recording machine and microphones placed on the table. His purpose, he explained afterwards, was "to show them how they sounded all cackling at once." Committee members, who are as fond of gruff, gritty Chairman Hoffman as he is of cackling, got very sore. After a flurry of angry protest Holifield made a motion that the machine be turned off, and the vote went 20-3 in favor. "Pull the plug," said Hoffman sourly...