Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some court. He now asked for four days in which to enter another habeas corpus plea. Prisoner Brittin's counsel made a similar request. Both were granted and both prisoners, accompanied by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney, clumped off to a second-floor room of the Willard...
Republican Hamilton Fish, in whose silk-stocking district along the Hudson River lives a voter named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asked leave to print in the Congressional Record the words of one of the few private citizens ever to be officially received on the House floor. Said Representative Fish: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to place in the Record the letter written by Col. Charles Lindbergh to the President of the U. S." There was not one objection but a deafening chorus of them led by Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of Gastonia. N. C. The Democrats of the House were...
...first floor of Manhattan's dingy West Side Court, busiest in the city, is a dungeon-like room with high dirty windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally...
...Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper offices where again it is rewritten, whooped up, whittled down or thrown on the floor...
...attempt to break its losing streak, the Harvard Basketball team will take the floor against Brown at Providence tonight. The starting lineup will be the same as that of the Cornell game, where, after a disastrous start, the Crimson rallied sharply, and fought the fast Ithacan quintet on ever terms for the rest of the game. Brown's team, while not outstanding, is expected to give Fesler's men stiff competition. Richard G. Fletcher '35, who was high scorer in Thursday's game, is again expected to contribute largely to the Harvard total. HARVARD BROWN Fletcher, r.f. l.f., Floren Merry...