Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Senate wrestled with its sense of economy, two members of the House came to blows over the Administration's housing bill. Illinois' white-haired, 83-year-old Adolph Sabath, who has more years of service (42) than any other member, was waiting to start things off. Up strode Georgia's blustering Gene Cox to demand ten minutes speaking time for the opposition...
...thin, bushy-haired man who wore a rumpled white shirt, a badly fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...spoke with a precise and confident British accent. Had he been a Communist? "I collaborated with Communists," he said, firmly, "but I was never a member of the party." Had he ever taken State Department documents and given them to "people not authorized to have them?" Briskly, the witness said he had-he had handed a briefcase full of them...
Such an inflammatory issue, if it caught on at the last minute, could reduce the Liberals' share of Quebec's important bloc of 73 seats in the 262-member parliament...
...succeed the late A. P. Giannini on the 25-member board of directors of his Bank of America, the directors last week picked slim, dark-eyed, olive-skinned Mrs. Claire Giannini Hoffman, 44, A.P.'s only daughter, longtime confidante and an executor of his $480,000 estate...