Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later the bill that Congressional tax experts have been working on since last autumn catapulted through the Senate without a record vote...
...must take action," the Vagabond reflected, as he sank deep in his comfortable armchair and watched the blazing logs kindled in his fireplace. "We must take action." How often he had sat in that chair, watching the fire and hearing a soothing voice that urged him thus! Always the fire seemed to catch the spirit of the voice, and respond to its glowing tones with ever more brilliance. Like the voice, it would subside and become quiet for a time; and then, once again, it would burst forth, ever agitated, glowing, ardent...
...group is of special interest because some of the statuettes are models of famous Baroque works of Bernini. Among them are studies for the figure of Longinus, designed for one of the piers under the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, a figure for the gold and bronze Chair of St. Peter in the apse, and five angels intended for the Ponte S. Angelo on the Tiber...
...fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted by the Harvard Architectural School: that no student can graduate unless he has had six months' hard...
...first few weeks Hugo Black sat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, Washington gossip reported Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a high pitch of exasperation because nervous Justice Black's rocking chair punctuated hearings with a high-pitched squeak, squeak. This week, when the Court convened after a two-week recess, Hugo Black's chair no longer squeaked and it speedily became apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test...