Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against. At 3:15, on the stormy morning of April 6, 1917, when the U. S. House of Representatives voted 373-to-50 to declare that a state of war existed with Germany, a memorable incident took place on the floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative...
...Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. So had Secretary of State Hull. At the week's beginning, Senator Johnson had declared himself entirely satisfied. Suddenly he changed his mind, stormily asked Mr. Hull for a further definition of foreign policy. Said he, on the Senate floor...
...make the first shows a success. Last week's 3,093 dog aristocrats paraded through their paces under the management of modest George Foley, professional superintendent of Westminster since 1928. He arranged benching, soothed disappointed exhibitors. His 125 white-uniformed attendants herded contestants from belowstairs kennels to main floor judging rings, kept the place clean, told inquisitive spectators the difference between boxers and bulls, between judges and exhibitors...
Then came Depression, the upsurge of radio, the decline of road earnings. Cain's business dwindled. In 1933 its storage space shrank from five solid floors to a ground floor & basement. From storing sets it descended to clumping & burning them-$30 a truckload for the ride, $4 for the bonfire. Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly...
...next Thursday at 7:45 o'clock in the Winthrop House Common Room, a committee will present two diverging reports on the proposed revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Debate will proceed on the basis of amendments offered by the committee and on others introduced from the floor...