Word: afternooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That afternoon Senator Adams had even more worries than pencils. The clerk's notes on the marble rostrum below John Garner's chair formed the only copy of the Deficiency Bill. Crumpled in Adams' pockets were the only explanations of the unprinted measure. Around his desk, like hawks hovering over a sidehill cornfield, were some 30 Senators intent on: 1) restoring the prevailing-wage principle to Relief, 2) softening the rule furloughing all WPA workers who have been on the rolls more than 18 months, 3) reviving the Federal Theatre project under WPA, 4) authorizing Farm Mortgage...
Forty other Senators sat in the chamber, grimly set on stiff-arming everything that might slow up adjournment. And between his afternoon naps in the cloakroom they had the support of Vice President Garner, who had a ticket to Texas in his wallet...
...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
...dwelt upon the six new records casually set by the Corps during the week just past. For them he emphasized the fact that these marks had been made without recourse to "suped up" engines, synthetic fuels or "five-hour engines" (such as Nazis and Fascists use). Flying all one afternoon and night, the big four-motored Boeing "superfortress" (XB-15) carried a two-ton payload 3,107 miles averaging 166.32 m.p.h. No record existed for this weight and distance; the Corps just set it up to shoot at, expecting to break it as soon as the superfortress (150 ft. wingspread...
...year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped off to the smoking room to abstain from voting on a measure of confidence, as did some 40 other Conservatives. The cloakrooms gossiped that party whips handed the names of abstainers to Mr. Chamberlain, were demanding Mr. Cartland's political hamstringing, that Mr. Chamberlain, like...