Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender. For 14 days, the U. S. .Senate had been occupied with a filibuster by a determined group of Southern Senators against the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill...
...hall, two bedrooms and a study. All the rooms face inward, opening tall windows on a garden space. A "carport," roofed and enclosed on two sides, saved money on a garage. About $400 was saved by omitting radiators and heating the house by steam pipes run under the concrete floor slabs...
...Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other...
...three o'clock one afternoon last week the small, highceilinged, brown-paneled U. S. District courtroom on the third floor of Chattanooga's new Federal building was so crowded that even the jury box had filled with spectators. At 3:05 a door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white...
When fans hear Benny Goodman's disciplined but unfettered band play on a phonograph or the radio, they tap their feet. When they listen to him from a dance floor, they shake all over. When they listen to him while sitting in large numbers in an auditorium, they are likely to cut up rough. Last spring when Goodman played Manhattan's Paramount movie theatre, the folks got to running up and down in the aisles and extra police were called out. Something like this took place in the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's polite plaster shrine last...