Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican Allen Treadway, who teased Townsenditcs in his district with half-promises, was pressed for his opinion of the Doughton scheme. "I have told...
...Floor Shows. Closed is Smart Showman Billy Rose's famed Casa Manana, but sparkling with the brightest floor show in town is his Diamond Horseshoe. In a room decked out with expertly hideous. Mauve Decade decor, on a tiny stage above a tremendous bar, the Diamond...
...plane crashed through two 18-inch brick walls, littered the observatory's sleek marble floor with broken bricks, mortar, gasoline, wreckage. Both aviators were killed. The telescope (a 36-inch refractor) was not damaged and no astronomers were hurt. But two offices containing precious photographs were wrecked...
Rare medals and coins in honor of David Garrick and other famous eighteenth and nineteenth century actors are now on exhibit in the Theatre Collection on the top floor of Widener Library...
...more than a year Baron Louis Rothschild, sportsman, patron of art and science and once Austria's greatest banker, has been a prisoner of the dread Nazi Gestapo in two rooms near that of Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of Austria, on the top floor of Vienna's Hotel Metropole. Aged by a year's close confinement, the once dapper Baron last week stepped out of a plane in Zurich, Switzerland, a free man again, liberated for an unknown ransom...