Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presiding over the (Senate one day last week while it filibustered on the anti-lynching bill, Massachusetts' 35-year-old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., seeking comfort, leaned far back in his chair. Suddenly the chair overturned, he landed with a crash on the floor...
...Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. (now promoter of the Governors' conference). Shortly after the visitors emerged to let cameramen snap nine of the best political faces in the South (see cut), the White House issued the text of a resolution signed by the Governors endorsing "a floor for wages and a ceiling for hours." Since the Southern bloc in the House defeated the Wages & Hours Bill last month, some newshawks jumped at the conclusion that the President and Governors had made a deal, they to furnish Southern support for Wages & Hours, he to get them lower freight rates...
...Franklin Roosevelt's second-floor study a seascape which has long hung above the Presidential chair was last week replaced by a full-length, life-sized portrait of John Paul Jones, whose most famed words were "I've just begun to fight...
...most pleasant places in which the Vagabond has found to study is the Sociology Library on the second floor of Emerson Hall. He discovered it the other day in an attempt to locate some of the volumes which he understood were to have something to do with his midyear exam in Sociology...
...catalogue cards but "Soc Lib," and coasted to a stop in front of an expensive window. As far as the eye could see, the panorama spelled knowledge. "Ah, at home with the Gods of Wisdom." he sighed as the gazed from one end to the other of the second floor of President Conant's house...