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...reporters "cover" the Senate for the Congressional Record. They work in 15 minute shifts, generally sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect...
Last week in the law offices behind this sign was a hustle-and-bustle indicative of a prime event. Clerks scuttled across thick-rugged floors in more-than-ordinary haste. Lawyers swung in and out of doorways bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion...
...minutes, as part of his official sentence he would be taken downstairs, strapped to the wooden triangle. His heart would be tested by the hospital orderly, and in the presence of the assembled J. P.'s he would receive 15 stinging, blood-raising strokes from the inch-thick lash. If as almost invariably happens, he should faint during the flagellation, the orderly was there to stop the beatings, apply restoratives until the prisoner resumed consciousness, if he should...
Last week 226 Congressmen roused themselves to attention in the House when tall, thick-shouldered Representative Franklin William Fort of New Jersey strode out into the well and began to deliver an hour-long speech on Prohibition. On their little stools in the gallery, newsmen bent forward intently to follow his words. Well did they know that Mr. Fort is a close personal friend of President Hoover. Until last week he was secretary of the Republican National Committee (see p. 16). Perhaps he might throw new light on the President's Prohibition views...
...Chicago, Alexander Blackman tried to change the shape of the head of his sick daughter Helen by making her wear a thick leather helmet with adjustable chin straps...