Word: cloakrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate on this high-handed motion, the Left, led by egg-headed Socialist Indalecio Prieto, solidly demanded the President's resignation, insisting that the dissolution that had led to its accession to power had been "unnecessary." Mournfully replied the old monarchist, Count de Romanones, "To dismiss even a cloakroom attendant would require eight days of preparation while the President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could...
...Speaker Byrns prepared to call for a voice vote, a stocky, red-faced, small-chinned, little figure popped out of the cloakroom, began shouting: "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" It was Ohio's Representative Martin Leo Sweeney, oldtime Cleveland politician, apostle of Father Coughlin and Dr. Townsend who, as national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, made 1,000 anti-British speeches before going to Congress...
...other guests. In the pillared ballroom. Mother Fisher beamed upon a six-tiered. pink-&-white birthday cake topped with 79 candles. California's white-haired Representative John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of his State and Congressional marshal of the Townsend Plan, lost his $100 overcoat in the House cloakroom. Cried...
Senators dozing on the cloakroom couches looked up to see Huey Long making a beeline for the men's room, knew his filibuster was over. In 15½ hours he had filled 85 pages of the Congressional Record at a cost of $4,500. While on his feet he had consumed a pound and a half of grapes, half a pound of American cheese, 15 glasses of milk. He had set a record for one-man filibusters second only to the 18-hour and 23-minute performance of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency...
...drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks...