Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling the oath law "nuisance legislation," Rep, Ralph Clampit rallied the repealist forces on the floor and cried: "The real trouble with the law is that the freedom of teachers has been shackled...
Sawabini, an insurance salesman living in Brookline, gained the floor by sending a note to Grace which said, "My name is Victor E. Sawabini, I come from Palestine. Please let me speak." Grace said afterwards he did not know that Sawabini was an Arab when he invited him to speak. He admitted being abashed by the Arab's remark "We don't want any more Jews. Why not send them to Texas...
...Crimson starters were Lutz, Heckel, Peabody, James, and Lupien, and this five soon found that Tiger meat would be hard to get. The Feslermen left the floor at the end of the first half on the short end of a 21 to 14 count. The second half was closer, with the Crimson being kept in the running by Charley Lutz and his 14 points until he was ejected from the contest on four personal fouls with still ten minutes remaining to play...
Opponents of the Teachers' Oath law rallied their forces yesterday in preparation for an expected struggle on the floor of the State House of Representatives, when the repeal bill comes up for a first reading this afternoon...
...Fernando on the outskirts of the city, 62 of the 473 duly elected deputies met to hear the Government's report of the war. The walls of white-washed masonry were decorated only with the Republic's red, yellow and violet flag, and on the floor were only a few strips of red carpet. The spectators were foreign newsmen...