Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Careful to keep a protective New Deal coloration on his voting record, John O'Connor used his chief function-as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee-to bottle up New Deal legislation, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization...
...Zurich already has a four-story, subterranean retreat into which officials can dive at a moment's notice. To avoid confusion as to what is the right way to number the floors' of a building underground, each floor has been given, not a number, but a color. The shelter has a 1,000-gallon water supply, a phonograph "well-stocked with records of comforting melodies...
...important rule is that the location selected be in the business section and preferably on the ground floor. Another is that no Centre may consist merely of a gallery; it has to have studios and work shops, too. A third is that the Centre, once opened, shall relate its exhibitions and teaching directly to what everybody knows in the community, not to what everybody ought to know. High-hatting is taboo...
...school will take elementary school graduates, in four years turn them into butchers, bakers, grocers, waiters. The food industry has contributed $30,000 worth of equipment: a butcher shop with mechanical slicers, refrigerators, gleaming showcases and sawdust on the floor; a bakery; a grocery; a cafeteria with a soda fountain; a food bacteriology laboratory...
...seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...