Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving into enlarged quarters this fall as a result of reallotment of rooms on the Union's third floor, the Language Center opens this year with increased facilities to serve all students interested in French and German civilizations...
...wife, Barbara Bird, had paid a call on him in jail, Charles Bird cornered two deputies with two guns, put them in a cell while he released his brother, Widmer and a 19-year-old youth named Theodore Slapik, awaiting trial for murder. The four descended from the fourth floor to the basement in an elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square at 60 m. p. h. Disregarding traffic signals they mowed...
...corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street. The slow elevators, the middle-aged employes give the place the atmosphere of an old government bureau. Outside in the sun on benches flanking the entrance sit visiting unionists waiting to buttonhole their leaders as they leave the building. On the top floor in a corner office protected by two women secretaries sits William Green. Among his books are such correspondence school volumes as Training of the Voice, Analysis of Oratorical Style, Selected Speeches for Practice...
...soon spied a shorter road to success in the new United Mine Workers. By the Century's turn he was a sub-district president, later Ohio district president, by 1912 Union secretary-treasurer. Meantime he had served two terms in the Ohio Senate, where, as Democratic floor leader, he gained a reputation as a labor liberal. Up to the time John L. Lewis helped boost him into the A. F. of L. presidency, the most conspicuous ability he had demonstrated was the ability to avoid making enemies...
...from the beginning, General Johnson still composes his pieces (in his Manhattan hotel suite, his Washington apartment or his Bethany Beach cottage) while pacing the floor. Faithful Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson sets the harangue down on paper, helps the General whip it into literary shape later. It is then wired to United Feature's Managing Editor William Laas, who deletes the outright libel and graver profanity, sends the copy smoking on its way to the presses...