Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ride in one of the new cars which he will henceforth use when exhibiting himself to crowds . Specially built 16-cylinder, nine-passenger Cadillacs, they have handles on the windshield for Secret Service men, a stock of tear gas bombs in a compartment behind the driver's seat. Floor space behind the compartment contains plenty of room for the President to lie down in, in case anyone starts shooting...
...Latest addition to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which Franklin Roosevelt is one of the founders, is a small nondenominational chapel which, between five rows of pews and the altar, has a wide floor space in which infantile paralytics who cannot kneel to pray may worship in their wheel chairs. Last week, the President and his party attended dedicatory services conducted by Atlanta's Episcopal Bishop Henry J. Mikell. C. Back from a three-week lecture tour on the West Coast, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Warm Springs after a plane trip from Seattle via Atlanta...
First question put to the Chamber was whether to recommit the bill-i.e., kill it. As the roll call proceeded, every Senator except three (Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Van Nuys, Nevada's McCarran) was present on the floor. Then, while the gallery- so crowded that young Mrs. James Roosevelt had to sit on the stairs-held its breath, the votes were counted. Result was 48-10-43, against recommittal. Five minutes later, there followed the formality of voting on the bill itself. This time the count was 49-0-42 for passage, and the Senate...
...enlarge the Supreme Court, noisiest of the Roosevelt Administration-was its timing. When the President launched his Reorganization Plan 15 months ago, it was far more drastic than the bill the Senate voted for last week. Nationwide reaction was total apathy. When the Reorganization Plan emerged on the Senate floor a month ago, instantaneous reaction of Congress and a large section of the U. S. press and public was a horrified suspicion that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to make himself a dictator. Reason for this superficially bewildering paradox was, of course, that the Court Plan, brought up and beaten since...
...them excepting specific Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down at the rate of one a minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test on Friday, he postponed the roll call over the week end to make his victory all the more one-sided. This almost turned out to be a serious error...