Washingtonians
Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 74-year-old, fancy-dressing Tennessean, introduced a bill providing that Senators be given cards explaining that they are Senators. Reason: in Capitol offices many a guard has been keeping them at arm's length till they could prove their identity. The bill passed unanimously.
Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black strode into the Supreme Court Chamber and sat down, cracking a precedent as he did so. Attorneys decently averted their eyes; a court clerk whispered into the Justice's-ear. Out scurried Justice Black, at length floated in again, now properly swathed in his...
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