As custom requires, Vice President Charles Curtis gave a Christmas dinner last week to the 19 Senate pages (age 12 to 16) in the Capitol restaurant.* Likewise as custom requires, the pages gave the Vice President a Christmas present. Page Philip J. ("Peewee") Bassford passed to Vice President Curtis an enormous wooden gavel with the statement: "We have christened this gavel 'Discipline' and it is guaranteed to mash 'em flat."
Contrary to custom, Vice President Curtis did not make to his young guests a long inspirational speech about "getting on in the world."...
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