Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire. For some 30 years to bring an anti-lynching bill to the floor of the Senate has been the signal for a filibuster by Southern Senators. In an instant Senator Barkley was on his feet protesting that Senator King was to have been next recognized. The Vice President's white eyebrows bristled. It was not his fault that the Leader and his man had been caught napping. He snapped...
Last week at the foot of barrier No. 5, the House Rules Committee, Wages & Hours lay as dead as a roast chicken. One of the most potent of Congressional Committees. Rules must say, in effect, "Pass on," before any bill can reach the floor of the House. If Rules refuses a rule, proponents of the bill can bring it to the floor by discharging the Committee through petition of half the membership, but only after an interval of 30 days. By its refusal to give Wages & Hours a rule last week the Committee had effectively bottled up the bill until...
Strengthened and not weakened was Senator Byrd's argument for his amendment when Senators found on their desks what newshawks considered one of the boldest pieces of lobbying ever seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...
...Court vacancy created last June 2 by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter; and 2) whether he would make his appointment before Congress adjourned, Idaho's gaunt old lion, Senator William E. Borah, last week gave it something new to wonder about. Said he on the Senate floor...
...Clinic has 15 floors, a carillon tower and imposing bronze doors. On the third floor is the room of the Board of Governors. Covering all the walls of that room are framed Mayo diplomas, certificates, awards and knighthoods conferred by governments and learned societies. Outside in a glass showcase are their many academic robes. Their favorites are the red ones of the University of Manchester, England...