Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great learning is not among the qualifications of many U. S. Congressmen, but all U. S. Congressmen like to lard their speeches with learned allusions. On the floor of the House one day last week rollicking Maury Maverick of Texas took exception to a critical remark made by Ralph Brewster of Maine...
John Nance Garner looked down from his rostrum, his keen eyes seeing everything taking place on the Senate floor. Deliberately blind to half-a-dozen Senators on their feet clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial...
...June 1936 when John L. Lewis set up the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, the moribund Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers had some 10,000 members and no important contracts. Working from a big modern office covering the entire 36th floor of Pittsburgh's Grant Building-a few floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated...
...Landon on the radio, but welcomed him back to the State of his birth. Last week, along with 19 other members of the National Committee's executive committee, a very serious Mrs. Worthington Scranton was to be seen daily entering & leaving a conference room on the first floor of St. Louis' swank Coronado Hotel...
...Lady of Sorrows are from the parish; one man, Joseph Francis McCarthy, flies from Manhattan to Chicago every Friday to make his novena. Collections now total $800 a week, and in January Father Keane plans a "Novena Anniversary Party" with games, prizes, a bar and "Chicago's Greatest Floor Show," to raise $15,000 to air-condition the crowded church...