Word: cloakrooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a 'prison-convict partner' or for that matter of compounding with the two thieves upon the Cross to sup with them in Paradise. I hope, however, that Paradise will be his destination. There may be left some shred of charity in his heart." No trifling cloakroom squabble was last week's dispute. This time it concerned not only the parentage of the Federal Reserve Act but the question of the very existence of the System it created. For last week President Roosevelt dispatched to his legislative leaders a 20,000-word bill which in one form...
...spectacle Senator Long had made of himself and the Senate stirred revulsion in and out of the Capitol. Many were the Democratic oaths sworn over the cloakroom cuspidors. Senator Tydings threatened to resign from the Senate and "let some one else from Maryland come here and look on if he wants to." Arkansas' Senator Robinson. Democratic Floor Leader, fairly boiled with indignation and disgust. Already the wily "Kingfish" had captured the allegiance of his junior colleague, Mrs. Hattie Caraway. Desperate, Senator Robinson moved for cloture. a rare parliamentary proceeding limiting debate to one hour per Senator...
Only two political cartoons were shown in his first U. S. exhibition last week, The House Restaurant in Washington, and Senate-The Republican Cloakroom. Of the latter the New York Evening Post's critic Margaret Bruening wrote: "It is an indictment of democratic government that is appalling, yet its poignant significance does not obscure the delightful quality of its humor." The other cartoons shown were street scenes of Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because...
...Taxes are bad and sales taxes are particularly bad. They are levied upon poverty and not upon wealth. . . . But we have to balance the budget. . . . In that choice selection of fine spirits that meet daily in the Democratic cloakroom, known as the Demagogue Club . . . our slogan is Safety First. . . . Taxes are always unacceptable, never popular, always cost political strength. It's easy for us to vote NO. . . . Some of us just demagogue on anything that happens to come along. . . . We have our farm section . . . our oil friends . . . our beer group. . . . The soldier group of the Demagogue Club . . . is raring...
With 500 cold and sluggish bumble bees in a hive tucked under his arm, Michael W. Barrett walked into Boston's Hotel Statler one day last week. That afternoon he was to tell the New England Nurserymen's Association about beekeeping. In the cloakroom he checked his beehive. Miss May Hassey looked at Miss Dorothy Stayton and giggled...