Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such examples of German propaganda will make fine material for political oratory on and off the floor of the House. Four years ago New York's Red-hunting Representative Fish demonstrated how a little material could be piled into a mountain of headlines when he headed a footling House inquiry into Communist propaganda in the U. S. (TIME, June 2, 1930, et seq.). Prime difference will be that at the time of the Red hunt the U. S. and Russia were not on speaking terms...
...debate, which is to be in the form of a parliamentary discussion, will be led by Joshua B. Cahn '35 and William C. Loring '35 for the affirmative, and by Henry V. Poor '36 and Raymond Dennett '36 for the negative. Following the speeches of these men, the floor will be thrown open for discussion...
...Stock Market Bill, through a provision restricting floor traders, would work "substantial injury to the interests of the entire investing public of the United States," the floor traders committee of the New York Stock Exchange charged in a petition to Congressional committees considering exchange regulation. The Wagner Bill preventing management from influencing unions would harm industry by "destroying the friendly relations between employer and employee," James A. Emery, spokesman for the National Association of Manufacturers, told the Senate Labor Committee...
...bald, moon-faced U. S. executive, who uses his office floor for a filing cabinet, brought debate on Britain's North Atlantic shipping bill in the House of Commons to a sudden halt one day last week. Patriotic members of Parliament wanted to know and know at once whether President Philip Albright Small Franklin of International Mercantile Marine was really going to block the Cunard-White Star merger (TIME...
...learning back on the cushions of the rear seat exhaustedly) Here is the map. The window is the grilled window on the second floor...