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...secessionists included three members of President Buchanan's Cabinet. One day around Christmas, the President was startled by a hubbub in the hall. He asked arch-Southerner Mrs. Roger Pryor (Reminiscences of War & Peace) "whether the house were on fire." She explained that "the shouts were those of rejoicing over a telegram announcing the secession of South Carolina." "That evening, Southern leaders, after celebrating in the parlor of Senator Jefferson Davis," went to call on Buchanan. Mrs. Davis rushed "impetuously ahead to share the good news with the President...
...minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...
Highly enjoyable to hefty, bespectacled William Connor was the national hubbub about his broadcast. In his office at the Mirror he continued to turn out vitriolic screeds in longhand, taking time out occasionally to blow a few toots on his mouth organ, an inspirational aid. Said he last week...
...hubbub became so regrettably loud that the Army had to act. From Washington it announced that Ben Lear had been ordered to make an explanation. Until it arrived, the Army would say nothing. Under the circumstances there was not much to say. Ben Lear might well have been oversevere: his sentence had the stigma of capricious anger, wounded vanity. But his objective-better discipline-was good. Many an officer thought it better to forget the whole business than make a nationwide song & dance about...
...stop, rushed reporters and photographers to the secret rendezvous by plane (another pioneer Carson stunt). By the time the Durkin train reached Chicago the Herald & Examiner was on the street with four pages of Durkin pictures. But that was only a start for his Durkin scoop. In the excited hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi, to the Herex building. Police discovered her whereabouts as extras began to roll with her by-line story of life with the notorious automobile thief and killer. When...