Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the secret session is over each correspondent hurries to find that particular Senator with whom he is on the most intimate and confidential terms. Senate rules prohibit, under penalty of expulsion, any Senator from revealing executive session happenings. It usually requires between ten minutes and a half-hour for all the essential facts of these meetings to be gathered up by the Capitol correspondents, assembled and put in full and free circulation in the Senate Press Gallery. Not all Senators will divulge what their rules forbid but enough will do so to make a fiction of the Senate secrecy...
That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret votes. Many a good Senate friend has this (all, quick-stepping, dark-haired news-gatherer of 28. Through him early this year the public learned the secret vote whereby the Senate confirmed Roy Owen West as a Coolidge Secretary of the Interior (TIME, Feb. 4), the publication of which...
...same Senate friends helped Mr. Mallon with a few names here, a few names there, until, in two days, he had compiled a version, at least, of the Lenroot vote, which was promptly published in U. P.-served newspapers. Again a Senate secret was out. Again Pressman Mallon's nose-for-news shocked and scandalized Senators...
...Mallon news this time was that nine Democrats had combined with 35 conservative Republicans to put Mr. Lenroot on the bench. The significance of the news, quite overshadowing the individual secret votes of Senators, was its manifestation of a growing Press policy, led by the United Press, to break down the fiction of secret Senate sessions by showing their futility...
...place to start housecleaning," cried La Follette, "is in our own household. . . . This is a legislative chamber and not a club or a secret organization...