Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate last week presented a spectacle that is seen in Washington scarcely once in a generation. Part of the spectacle was purely visual: day after day seats on the Senate floor, of which three-quarters are usually vacant, were occupied by as many as 60 of the 96 Senators. On roll calls as many as 80 appeared personally in the chamber to vote. But the most important part of the spectacle was political: senior members of the majority party, led by the Administration's own floor leader were fighting one of the Administration's own bills...
...contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned into a theatre where a scene from the Merchant of Venice would be re-enacted with Uncle Sam playing the role of Shylock." Carter Glass stamped onto the floor and delivered a philippic upon "economic blunders, if not economic crimes, perpetrated by Congress...
...swore he would, if necessary, leave Congress to lead his men himself. "They can sit around here and talk evasions and other nonsense," stormed the berserk Republican, "but I stand for law and order." Much less of a threat to the public peace was a final outburst on the floor of the House. Cried Mr. Hoffman: "By the aid of his Secretary of Labor, who was born only God knows where but whose destination, if the predictions of many be true, is absolutely certain; with the assistance of his traitorous tool Murphy and the aid of the flying squadrons...
...Morris Plan Bank with a representative right in the store. A competitive measure, the Morris Plan tie-up is not advertised by Macy's, but if a customer hesitates for lack of ready cash, he is likely to be steered to the Morris Plan "fellow on the ninth floor...
Walter Duranty, whose brilliant correspondence from Moscow to the New York Times is written under duress of another kind, pounded impatiently on the floor with his cane and repeated that writers could not write honestly under facism...