Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revived hopes for the Copeland Pure Food & Drugs bill when North Carolina's Bailey and Missouri's Clark, who led the fight which drove it from the Senate floor last month, announced that they and Senator Copeland were now substantially agreed, that passage of the bill this session seemed assured...
...some of its "strongest" arguments, would have given some employers a legal pretext for interfering with the organization of their employes. Just 21 votes were mustered for the Tydings amendment, so it went to defeat. No amendment of any kind was made to the Wagner Bill from the Senate floor. Just four Democrats and eight Republicans voted against the bill when it passed...
...Manager Witherspoon was genial and relaxed as he talked with his aide, Edward Ziegler. He beamed when Treasurer Earle Lewis came in to report that next year's subscriptions had exceeded his greatest expectations. "That's grand," said Herbert Witherspoon and crumpled suddenly to the floor, the statement of his plans clutched tightly in his hand. Hour later a hearse drove up to the shabby stage entrance, carried Herbert Wither-spoon away-dead from an attack of coronary thrombosis...
Born in Manhattan of impoverished musical parents. Artist Kroll used to haunt the old red brick & granite Metropolitan museum as a child. Not until he was about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter...
...Boston's Back Bay where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John opened his door and saw a hallful of flames...