Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only way to force the bill on to the floor was for 145 Representatives to sign a petition to withdraw it from the Ways & Means Committee. The petition was started, kept in a black notebook on the desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned...
...Negro to appear on the floor of a legislature south of the Potomac River and converse with its members is, for most Southerners, unthinkable. Yet last week the South Carolina Senate, sitting at Columbia, permitted it to happen. The Negro was Green Coleman, 88-year-old inmate of the Charlotte, N. C. almshouse. Accompanied by Mayor Wearn of Charlotte and a white delegation, he asked to be heard because he was, he claimed, a South Carolina State Senator in the carpetbag days from 1872 to 1876. The South Carolinians were not entirely willing to admit his claims; State records...
Broadway--$.30-.40-.35. $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old Mayfair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
Hotel Bradford, Cascades--$.30-.40. .40. $1.25 minimum. No cover weekdays. Otherwise $.50. Joe Rines' orchestra. Good music, rather a ha-cha atmosphere, amusing floor show. One of the best for a hilarious evening. Better dress...
Copley-Plaza, Sheraton Room--$.30-.40-.40. $.75 cover weekdays. $1.00 otherwise. No minimum. Meyer Davis orchestra. One of the best places in Boston, with a large floor and a good orchestra. Fine place to take sub-debs from the Newtons. Cover makes it rather expensive. Better dress...