Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debating history that professors have participated, according to Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Allan B. Ecker '41, co-managers of House debating. After delivering formal constructive speeches, the faculty men will be cross-examined by student opponents. They will also be required to stand before questioning from the floor in a forum following the debate...
...wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
Andrews Over Industry. Assigned to fit U. S. industry to this jacket is Wages & Hours Administrator Elmer F. Andrews, a deceptively mild man who as New York State Commissioner of Industry learned to slap with a gloved hand. On the fifth floor of the Labor Department Building in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews labored at his prodigious task with less than 100 helpers...
Died. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, beauteous widow of the late Muralist Gardner Hale, socialite actress who was recently rumored engaged to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins; after a 16-floor plunge from her apartment; in Manhattan...
...announcer is stationed on a tenement roof and as he waits and fears for the enemy planes to come over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...