Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's call, Candidate Tom Dewey refused comment. He had already praised the record of the 80th Congress and declared that a special session would be "a frightful imposition." But the wires from Albany burned with telephone messages to House Majority Leader Charles Halleck in Rensselaer, Ind.; to Speaker Joe Martin at his summer home in Sagamore, Mass.; to other top Republican strategists. When Joe Martin finally spoke up, it was to warn: "There will be plenty of action. Like the boys at Bunker Hill, we'll wait to see the whites of their eyes...
...lashed, the dreary assemblage awoke with screams of wounded pride. Imprecations rattled about the hall like hailstones. Angry old men glared and shook their fists at Basso, who stood slender, confident and amused behind the speaker's desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the rostrum, his pince-nez and a finger wagging together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead...
...giant yawn, just before the session's end, he got up and started out of the chamber. Members who saw him leaving thumped briefly on their desks. One member stood up and clapped. Old Mackenzie King waved a limp right hand, faded into the shadows behind the Speaker's throne...
...have only one face and we might as well do something with it." The speaker, Polish-born Mala Rubinstein, niece and operations chief to Cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, last week gave Manhattan's WPIX televiewers the lowdown on how to make...
...notable shots: the breath-catching moment when aged Cardinal Dougherty stumbled and nearly fell from the rostrum; Speaker Martin's frozen face as Dewey accepted the nomination; Governor Sigler's dejection as he waited to release the Michigan delegation; Herbert Hoover's emotion at the affectionate demonstration that greeted him; the Dewey motorcade, threading its way through the wet, crowded streets to Convention Hall for the acceptance speech...