Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last Senator Adams popped through the swing-door, worries and pencils sticking out all over him, brushed through the hovering swarm and trotted upstairs to the Senate floor. The bare fact that he had emerged was hot news in Congress-wise Washington...
...District of Columbia, news of the last Deficiency Bill's report to the Senate floor is treated as the year's best moment to buy a pint or more of hard liquor. Open house is declared in the Capitol from end to end. Even dignified Speaker Bankhead lets word get about that there is cracked ice in his office. Small groups of members gather chummily in cloakroom corners to sing the ancient adjournment favorite: There's Blood on the Saddle...
...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
...hardworking Conservative Ronald Cartland, member for King's Norton, part of Mr. Chamberlain's native Birmingham, who has defended the Prime Minister in many a speech. "Profoundly disturbed," he did what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from...
...from a proposed increase in the loan authorization of the Export-Import Bank, then passed it, sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood at $1,615,000,000. California's bulky oldtimer, Hiram Johnson, took the floor to characterize the New Deal's spending philosophy as that of the cow-camp cook: "Come and get it! Come...