Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina. Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was distressed: 1) because the job of Undersecretary had been created without his knowing it, had, in fact, been slipped into the Agriculture Department Appropriation bill when only about five Senators were on the Senate floor; 2) because he felt the Undersecretary should be "one familiar with the lowly and despised occupation of farming." Said he: "What is needed for that job is a farmer who knows what overalls are for, not a man who knows only how to wield a pointer in front...
...riding before. The Royal Princesses followed in other berlins. The Palace guns boomed and between their salvos the great bells in the Capitol belfry could be heard a mile around. Arrived in the Chamber of Deputies, the Queen and her ladies were escorted to a box. Below on the floor were palms and 800 black-shirted Senators and Deputies...
...instructions to the Deputies had been: "The entrance of the King into the Chamber will be the signal for an enthusiastic outburst of applause." It was. The King marched up and sat down on the throne which had been specially built so that his short legs could reach the floor. Flanking the throne were eight gilded chairs and in each chair a Prince of the blood...
...fifth-floor office in Washington's old Post Office Department Building all one day last week trooped hopeful airline operators with sealed bids for the nation's airmail. After a two-month cycle of fury and futility they thought they were about to get back what a nervous Government had snatched from them. When the deadline for receiving bids came and went, an underling scooped up 45 thick envelopes, tied them into a bundle, stuffed them into a vault...
...reported missing and the next it would be 20. Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam-mouthed. All the visitors saw were some 40 little blackamoors marching in military...