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...Cover) A hush fell over the assembled Congress of the United States and the crowded galleries. In the silence, the Doorkeeper's voice came clear: "Mr. Speaker, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur." In a great wave, the applause and cheers burst upon the erect figure who strode down the aisle. Democrats, Republicans, and the crowds in the galleries rose as one, clapped and shouted on & on. Across 8,700 miles, through cheering crowds, clouds of black headlines and storms of angry argument, Douglas Mac-Arthur had come to this podium to make his stand before the nation...
...many a legislative eye was wet. So were many other eyes across the land as the nation turned from radios and television screens back to office duties and neglected chores. Douglas Mac-Arthur handed his manuscript to the clerk, waved to his wife in the visitors' gallery, then strode through the cheering rows of Congressmen. History would remember this day and this man, and mark him large...
...Gaitskell spoke, Bevan lurked in the shadows behind the Speaker's chair, hands in pockets, pouting and mumbling to himself over public defeat. When the Chancellor had finished, Bevan strode angrily from the House, drove to the hospital where Clement Attlee is recuperating from duodenal ulcer, let it be known that he would not give up the fight for a completely free health service...
...Catalogue. With that, Actor Hayden went back to work on his latest picture, Skid Row, and the committeemen turned to some less cooperative witnesses. Actor Will Geer, one of the Jeeter Lesters of Tobacco Road, strode nonchalantly to the stand and amiably refused to answer any questions about Communist membership: "This is an emotional and hysterical question. I stand on the rights of the Fifth Amendment." Less pleasantly, three minor Hollywood writers also defied the committeemen...
...questions petered out and Batal sat down, apologizing for taking so long. After representatives of the VFW and the American Legion had put themselves on record for "ANY bill to outlaw Communism," Representative Charles Iannello strode to the platform...