Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks the Senate fulfilled expectations by the listlessness of its debate. Because Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee was too lukewarm to do a job that rightfully belonged to him, Majority Floor Leader Joseph T. Robinson had to take over Ad- ministration sponsorship of the World Court resolution. This proved an initial handicap because Senator Robinson, though a loud and earnest debater, is no expert on foreign affairs. Meanwhile the case against the Court was presented by Senate veterans who had learned their parts by heart in the debate of 1926. But the Administration entered the final weekend...
...dragged a wrangle between Louisiana's Long and Kentucky's Logan. The "Kingfish" was all over the floor, red-faced, arms waving, shouting, whispering. Cried he: "I am not the only man in the United States who does not understand what this thing is all about. . . . We are being rushed pell-mell to get into this World Court so that Señor Ab Jap or some other something from Japan can pass upon our controversies...
...buzz of excitement stirred in the galleries as Senator Robinson, presumably fresh from communication with the White House, stalked into the chamber. Taking the floor for his final plea, Leader Robinson declared: "There has been unfair, unjust, unreasonable propaganda carried on during the course of this debate, carried on by agencies outside the Senate. Appeals have gone from end to end of the country to citizens to send telegrams to Senators to take a stand of opposition on this issue. More than 40,000 telegrams have been sent here in response to such requests, every one of them prompted...
...From the floor rose cries of "Vote! Vote!" In the galleries necks craned as the roll-call began. A few still doubtful Senators checked each vote with care. Halfway down the list it became apparent that the tide was running against the Court. The doubtful Senators swung with it. Final vote was 36 against the resolution, 52 for it-seven votes short of the required two-thirds majority. Twenty Democrats had deserted the President to vote "Nay." Of the Senate insurgents and of the four Senators summoned to the White House that morning only Republican Cutting voted for the Court...
...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...