National Affairs: Home Thoughts

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With these words a skinny, bespectacled, schoolteacherish Georgian uprose last week in the House of Representatives. There was no objection, for the Honorable Braswell Drue Deen of Alma, who at this session has wangled from his party leaders a total of only eight minutes speaking time, had just been promised two minutes more by Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. Seizing time by the forelock Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker,...

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