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Word: passkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Filibuster! | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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