Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to belong to the group of Southern Senators who would like to weaken Franklin Roosevelt's Southern popularity by making him sign an anti-lynching bill, rarely is there a Southern Senator who does not feel bound to talk against the measure at length on the floor or who does not enjoy himself hugely doing...
Farm Bill. Main spur to the Senate Agriculture Committee was the antilynching filibuster on the floor, which could be ended only by the introduction of a Farm Bill. After a week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...
...bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach the floor. Only means of getting it there in this session appeared to be a petition to discharge the Committee, which must be signed by 218 of the House's 435 members. Labor Committee's Chairman Mary T. Norton, having got 153 signatures on such a petition, was this week...
...Senate floor, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey used the immediate necessity of dealing with taxation as grounds for postponing consideration of antilynching. Said he of the undistributed profits tax, "Let's repeal it today. . . . Even the President says it isn't working. ..." Aware that any plan to do anything about taxation must originate in the House, enthusiastic Senator Bailey proposed that the Senate adopt a resolution "to repeal this tax just as soon as we get something from the House to which we can attach a repealer...
...woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker Bankhead's predecessors under the New Deal, were not men to make the job what it had been theretofore-that of a boss, for whom the House Majority Leader functioned as a sort of floor operative. Furthermore, under the New Deal, with lump sum appropriations to the President, the patronage arrangements for which in previous administrations the Speaker had been a sort of clearing house began instead to be handled much more directly by the White House. Thus the job that, after his 20 years...