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...Latta, White House clerk. Clerk Latta bowed low from the waist, handed in a paper, bowed low again, vanished. Representatives flocked excitedly into the House, filled its curved rows of black seats. Speaker Longworth drew himself up importantly in his high chair. Everything became quiet. A clerk on the rostrum cleared his throat, began to read the White House document...
Late one afternoon jobless demonstrators stormed into the Minnesota House of Representatives at St. Paul, took possession of the chamber after the speaker had declared a 30-minute recess. For two hours Red orators bellowed and inveighed from the rostrum against the legislators, demanded Unemployment relief. "Chair warmers! Yellow fakers!" screamed an 18-year-old girl at House members who tolerantly cheered her gusto. During the chamber demonstration, 50 Reds slipped down to the basement, entered the Capitol restaurant, gorged themselves on baked apples and crackers...
John Jackson Walsh, a member of the Massachusetts Bar and a prominent figure in civic organizations will preside at the rostrum. Both orstors will have the opportunity for rebuttals...
...evening President Hoover went to the Capitol, took a front row seat before the Senate rostrum. Before him rested a grey coffin in which lay the body of North Carolina's Senator Lee Slater Overman who had died that morning. The Overman desk (on the aisle, second row) was draped in black. The funeral service, conducted by Spnate Chaplain Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William...
...precisely noon on Dec. 1, Vice President Curtis mounted the rostrum in the Senate chamber at Washington. Beneath him Senators were milling about, handshaking, ready after five months of vacation to take up the Nation's business again. All the Senators-elect (Hastings, Bulkley, McGill, Brock, Carey, Williamson) except James John Davis and Dwight Whitney Morrow were being introduced right & left by friends. Mr. Davis' right to his seat had been challenged by Senator Nye's committee for investigating excessive campaign expenditures. He refused to join the Senate until cleared. Mr. Morrow's credentials were late...