Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced Representative Fred Moore Vinson rose in the House to put the finishing touches on a job that has kept him sweating since last November, when he started work as chairman of a Ways & Means Subcommittee to draft the Revenue Bill of 1938. Well-informed Taxman Vinson took the floor without notes. The bill he proposed to defend against all comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through two days before without a record vote. Congressman...
...Donald Douglas was a young Annapolis midshipman who preferred sailing on the Severn and making model airplanes to studying navigation and naval tactics. One day Midshipman Douglas climbed to the second floor of the Naval Academy dormitory, let fly a glider he had built. The toy banked, swooped, hit a passing admiral on the head. The result: Donald Douglas left Annapolis abruptly, next year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then...
...trying to push a stiff Wages-&-Hours Bill past an unsympathetic Rules Committee and then through a recalcitrant House. Mary Norton did the best she could. This was to get a majority (218) of House members to sign a petition discharging the committee and bringing the bill to the floor last December, where Aunt Mary's colleagues upset the applecart by voting it down...
...House District Committee was a great success as "the first woman Mayor of Washington," has been an equally outstanding success as Labor chairman. Undoubtedly, her efforts and those of her steering committee, headed by Massachusetts' Arthur Healey, last week helped get Wages-&-Hours its hearing on the floor, but the real reasons for the sensational transformation of Aunt Mary's capsized applecart into a genuine political bandwagon lay elsewhere. They were: 1) a letter to her from Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight in effect urging members to heed her petition, and 2) the Florida primary (see p. 77), which...
...eastern end the main floor is entirely laid, but at the other a riveting gang is still working within the basement walls on a maze of scaffolding above murky pools of water on the floor...