Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week, Congressman Mansfield surprised himself even more thoroughly by another coincidence of exactly the same kind. This time, the bill to whose rescue he raced on his wheel chair...
...authoritarian State" but in the House it never even had a chance to be denounced. House procedure empowers the Rules Committee to determine the order in which bills shall be considered, apportion time limits for general debate. Thus, by not giving a "rule" to bring a bill to the floor, the committee can effectively block action on any piece of legislation which its members do not favor. Since the Rules Committee is elected by the House and since the House contains an overwhelming Democratic majority, the present committee could usually be depended upon to put no obstacle...
Unchallenged in the first encounters on their own floor, the Crimson cagers will be playing their first game away this season...
Dancing was slow getting under way, as the orchestra played for forty-five minutes to an empty floor. At nine-fifteen an unidentified and determined couple launched proceedings with an original version of the Big Apple, and in five minutes the floor was jammed...
When the Yardlings take the floor against M.I.T. Wednesday evening in the season's curtain-raiser, the spectators are going to be able to product the outcome with as much chance of hitting the nail on the head on the head as Coach Skip Stahley himself...