Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Making. When Joe Robinson was Majority Floor Leader of the Senate, no Democrat would have dreamed of trying to slip over an important bill when the Leader was away from his desk or preoccupied. Last week the level to which the supposedly ruling party had fallen was sensationally exposed by Leader Barkley's own colleague, ponderous Logan of Kentucky, who slipped over an act basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan...
...headed Carter Glass, who has snarled at the New Deal's "invasion" of States' rights, who turned down the Secretariat of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, but who respects the propertied classes, got angry in the proper tradition last week. He took the Senate floor to demand passage of a bill appropriating $100,000 to buy Patrick Henry's Red Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick...
...women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth floor of Manhattan's Woolworth Building...
...mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
Last week he came upon something beyond clucking or smiling over-a disturbingly prophetic cartoon. Published in 1919, it showed Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando leaving the Peace Conference, the treaty on the floor, a child labeled "1940 Class" standing with head bowed behind a pillar. Caption: THE TIGER: "Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping...