MARKED INFORMALITY
SCENE IN THE HOUSE
CONGRESSMEN TAKE THEIR FAMILIES
WASHINGTON, January 3,
Light-hearted members gave no indication of the heavy responsibility to be borne this session when an unusually important Congress assembled today.
There is an informality about the American House of Representatives which is rather intriguing to British
countries,
Some Congressmen took their families into the Chamber, and toddlers ran between the benches making friends, while juniors chewing gum sat wide-eyed alongside their proud fathers.
Unable to find a chair, one Congressman's wife sat on her husband's knee. Throughout the proceedings the din on the floor was exceeded only by the chatter from the galleries.
The Speaker's gavel thudded vainly till a chorus of "shushing" quietened the members of the public. Then 417 Congressmen gaily answered the yoU-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 9
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130MARKED INFORMALITY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 9
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