Word: whelchel
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Washington was hot enough to drive a man crazy. The nerves of Representative Frank Whelchel of Gainesville, Ga. were on edge. Just to make things worse, from the room below his office in the Old House Office Building came the incessant bump and whir of mimeograph machines. Mr. Whelchel had complained about the noise more than once. In his soft Georgia accent he had told Truman Ward, who has a concession to duplicate speeches for Democrats, that one day he would "smash the machines to pieces...
...come. Up leaped tortured Congressman Whelchel, grabbed a club-a length of 2-by-4 that was standing in a corner-and rushed downstairs. In Mr. Ward's office he laid about him with a whack and a will, smashed a machine on its head, walloped a $600 feeder. The 2-by-4 bounced out of his hands. He recovered it, took a few more swings, departed, breathing deeply, feeling better...