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Proceedings began with dignity, with Senators in clean tropical suits looking urbane and trading splendid compliments. But there was an occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether...
...such evidence, the Republicans were often reduced to questions prefaced by such phrases as "some have charged that-" or "there is a report that-." Many a Republican on the committee was frankly impressed by the Secretary's well-briefed grasp of facts, dates and documents. Wisconsin's waspish Alexander Wiley said to him: "You have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would say, with that mind of yours. Keeping everything in it is a remarkable accomplishment." Some seemed bedazzled by the intricacy of his argument. Maine's Owen Brewster...
...Senate, in a worn and angry mood, was more waspish than rational. Minnesota's bouncy Hubert Humphrey called the South's arguments "blasphemy," and twice had to take his seat for defying senatorial decorum. Senators swapped insults and personal attacks. Lucas finally moved in to shut off the Dixiecrat filibuster by cloture, not in order to get a vote on FEPC itself but just to get to the first step: a vote on a motion to bring the bill to the floor...
...Waspish, 41-year-old Bill Jenner is a small man to use the Senate office chambers once occupied by the late great George W. Norris...
Every confirmed Godfrey fan knows that from one moment to the next he may erupt into ribaldry, beery pathos or waspish exasperation. When a joke lays an egg, he will pettishly blame his writers. And he reacts sharply to criticism: hearing that William Paley thought the Godfrey TV show "lacked movement," Arthur brought on a line of hula dancers and leered into the TV camera: "Is that enough movement for you, Bill...