Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just witnessed a very amazing spectacle on the floor of the House of Representatives. For the first time in my 25 years as a member I have seen a majority leader, with a majority of 4-to-1, rise to appeal to his members to sign a petition to discharge his own Rules Committee from consideration of his legislation. That is definite proof of the statement I have often made: that the Democrats cannot efficiently run the House of Representatives...
...William Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania lives a quiet bachelor's life in Chester Springs, collects old Italian bronze and French porcelain, permits no telephone in his house. At his ground-floor laboratory in Philadelphia he good-humoredly allows an impertinent squirrel to come in by the window, make off with chocolate bars and filter paper. Squirrels, however, are not Dr. Seifriz' favorite pets. On a far greater favorite of his he last week performed an experiment with extraordinary results...
...stocks which are so-called market leaders-stocks the price movements in which undoubtedly have a tremendous effect upon the general trend of prices. . . . These figures as a group are a challenge to the validity of the common assertion that the existence of the specialist and the floor trader is justified on the basis of their stabilizing influence on the market, and their resultant benefits to the members of the public who enter the market...
...problem of the permissible field of operation of the professional trading member on the floor of the Exchange for his own account is one which has long pressed for solution. . . . Any study of our markets over the past twenty-five years will reveal that there has always been present a tendency upon the part of the professional trader to accentuate a declining market by selling short for speculative profit at a time when public distress adds a factor of demoralization...
Between frequent pauses to autograph copies of his latest work, "The Book of Marvels", in a meek off the crowded main floor of Jordan Marsh's Halliburton amplified his statement. "You don't have to be so crazy you throw things. But I don't even drink. Perhaps it's a result of my four years at Princeton...