Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lemke: "I'm not begging anything from the damned reactionary Republicans." ¶ Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Rayburn, Majority Whip Pat Boland picked 15 assistant whips to help keep the 332 Democrats of the House in order. Rules given the subwhips: Four of them must be on the floor of the House at all sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever it threatens to lose its dignity, become loud and boisterous; must forewarn the leaders of revolts brewing; must keep Democrats from signing petitions to discharge unwelcome bills from committees; must...
...Jones have been the stanchest of friends, the warmest of mutual admirers. Senator Glass calls Chairman Jones the ablest administrator in Washington. First of this month he moved from Washington's Raleigh Hotel, where he has lived for 22 years, to an apartment on Jesse Jones's floor in the Mayflower. Last week in the Senate the old but still peppery Virginian uprose to refute his junior colleague's argument...
...cousin of the late Mrs. Garrett, quietly became administrators of the residuary estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the court was to pass on the audit, the fourth floor of Philadelphia's City Hall was as crowded as a County Fair, and Case No. 2552 of 1932 became a real problem for the Orphans' Court which William Penn set up 248 years ago. Within four months, 3,000 claims were filed, since then 14,000 more...
Sitting as judicial bench for the mock trial on the legal rights of taxpayers wishing to recover processing and floor taxes under the A.A.A., the question which will be debated at eight o'clock tonight in the Ames Competition at the Law School, will be the Honorable John E. Allen, Chief Justice of New Hampshire; the Honorable Thomas W. Swan, Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second District, sitting in New York City; and the Honorable Charles H. Moorman, Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting in Louisville, Kentucky...
...York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while the adventuress is singing (?) below, thus winning a second objective. "Precious" and her simpering mother (Alice Brady) try to persuade the easy-going father to ship his daughters back the next day, but so well do they succeed in obtaining his affection, that they stay and after considerable...