Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department Appropriation bill to be made to the Senate. Senator Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue to speak. This was far closer to steamroller tactics than the U. S. Senate usually sees. Many of the elder members of the Club fumed...
...whole than like a convention. No one was elected to anything. No one was even nominated. After he had delivered himself of a 1,500-word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...
...Roosevelt settled down in an arm chair under a big locust tree with a white-washed trunk, and each morning as four retired submarine chasers brought a flock of Congressmen to the island, he presided over something resembling an old-fashioned political picnic. Republican Senator McNary, not invited, sarcastically described the performance as a "weekend charm school." During the evenings which the President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long...
...President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress. Its most significant chore this century was steering the Norris Lame Duck Amendment in 1932. One of the most active House Committees is that on Labor. Last fortnight a widow of 62, New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, succeeded to the chair of the Labor Committee and last week another widow of 62, New York's Caroline Goodwin O'Day, succeeded to the chair of the Election Committee...
Said Frank Brown, whose only apparent injuries were seared hands: "It must be the anticipation, the thinking about what you are going to feel in the days and hours before you go to the chair, that is the worst suffering...