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After escorting Duff to the rostrum to be sworn in by Vice President Barkley, Martin asked that the galleries be permitted to rise. "So far as the Chair knows," said Barkley good-naturedly, "it has never been customary or necessary to give unanimous consent for Pennsylvanians to arise anywhere they are." The galleries, packed almost solid with Pennsylvanians, arose. Then Big Jim Duff, the man who licked the Grundy machine in the primaries, licked the Fair Deal's Francis Myers in November, took his seat-an able, rugged, progressive addition to the Republican side of the Senate...
...this trip, but he hoped to bring her soon "and I know you will fall in love with her the way I did-but I hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered. "You can't vote this year," he would say, "but you will be voting before I quit running for office...
...sticky-hot, soundproofed little White House broadcasting room, Harry Truman smiled a quick, reassuring smile toward Bess and Margaret. Then the President of the U.S. stepped up to the solitary rostrum in the glare of the floodlights, flipped open his loose-leaf notebook, and swam into the radio and television focus of the world...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), well-poised bishop on the rostrum rapped for order and the 700-odd members settled down. So this week, at the 100th annual Conference of the Southern California-Arizona Methodist Church at the University of Redlands, 71-year-old Bishop Alexander Preston Shaw became the first Negro to preside full-time over a conference of white Methodists...
...adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...