Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief product, automobiles. The Michiganders asked for entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back to the Ways & Means Committee for conference. The House refused, 300 to 94. Last-minute news from the White House, that President Coolidge insisted on Secretary Mellon's lower tax-cut figure, availed nothing. When the vote on passage...
Senator LaFollette got the floor to have read into the record the guileless correspondence between the "progressives" and Republican Curtis. Then, after many another had digressed, retorted, and exclaimed upon a variety of matters, the incident was closed. Two days later the Senate committees were organized the way everyone had planned they should be. The following officers were perfunctorily reelected: Senator Moses of New Hampshire, President pro tem; Edwin P. Thayer, Secretary; David S. Barry, Sergeant-at-Arms...
...State of Oklahoma, famed since for oil wells, yellow pine, Ku Klux Klan, cal ow politics. Of the seven Governors the state has had, six have been threatened with impeachment by bands of political freebooters who from time to time dominate Oklahoma. †Many sat or lay on the floor...
...Brooklyn, a Mrs. Bertha Turner, janitress, was walking upstairs followed by her police dog, Vol. Before reaching the top floor, Mrs. Bertha Turner turned into a room; her absent-minded Vol, his eyes upon his paws, failed to notice this and continued walking upstairs until he came out upon the roof. Soon he heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge...
...Mass., Richard McNally, 74, and John McNally, 34, his son, fought together. Later, the maid in the lodging house where they had lived together peacefully for 15 years, entered their room. One of the beds was tipped over, the other broken; a table with smashed legs lay on the floor; there was a streak of blood on the wall and the worn carpet was torn in three places. In the midst of this wreckage lay Richard McNally and his son, cut, bruised, still gripping each other with a terrible anger. Both were dead...