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...Representatives stayed in their seats, talked quietly as the galleries filled. At 11:30 a U. S. Navy band struck up a muted tune in the Speaker's lobby. The House rose as a flag-draped coffin was rolled in, placed among the flowers piled high against the rostrum, opened. For half an hour Representatives, clerks, pages shuffled by it. Then Speaker Bankhead's gavel rapped again and tall, grey Chaplain James Shera Montgomery, in flowing cutaway, began a prayer. When it was over the rear door swung open and in marched the U. S. Senate, escorted...
After another prayer Michigan's Representative Louis C. Rabaut, to whose small, sweet tenor voice Joe Byrns had liked to listen, sang Absent and Thy Will Be Done. Leaning heavily on the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than...
...Shera Montgomery, to whom the annual memorial service is his one big occasion, closed his eyes, upturned his face, lifted his clasped hands toward the ceiling and began : "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open. . . ." A chord was struck on a small, cheap piano that stood beside the rostrum and Dorothy Reddish, a young woman employed by the Washington Telephone Company, sang There Is No Death. "The Lord Is My Shepherd. . . ." For ten minutes Chaplain Montgomery gave the mourners his best. Then Patrick J. Haltigan, House reading clerk, began : "Huey Pierce Long, Senator from the State of Louisiana. Lawyer...
...demonstrators moved their blankets and belongings over to the Senate chamber so that the Assembly room could be used for Civil Service examinations. Later they moved back. A onetime Assemblyman named Theron McCampbell, now an independent candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator, appeared uninvited on the rostrum...
Instead of taking any action itself, the Stock Exchange tipped off SEC, which in turn tipped off the New York State Bureau of Securities. Not until the day after the injunction was obtained last week did the gong on the rostrum above the floor of the Exchange bring trading to a halt for the formal announcement that Partner Meighan had been suspended for three years for "conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade in that his firm . . . had engaged in reckless and unbusinesslike dealing. . . ." Later the New York Curb Exchange suspended McCaffrey's Curb members...