Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calendar for a fresh start on another bill next day. To his dismay, the harmonious Democrats split and the motion was voted down 35-10-27. A moment later, Republican Leader Charles McNary, missing no tricks, moved to recess. Bells rang again in the corridors and a second roll call was begun. Senators began appearing through the swinging doors to answer to their names. Freshman Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma came in and rushed to Leader Barkley...
...bill can bring it to the floor by discharging the Committee through petition of half the membership, but only after an interval of 30 days. By its refusal to give Wages & Hours a rule last week the Committee had effectively bottled up the bill until 1938. The roll of the 14 members of the Rules Committee readily reveals why Franklin Roosevelt's No. 2 bill was as dead as No. 1 (the Court Plan): Four are Republicans naturally opposed, five are Democrats from the South, whose industrial ambitions hinge on attractively cheap labor which the Black-Connery Bill aims...
...basis for bargaining, feeling that half a cake was better than none. Near week's end the matter was put to a vote among the committee on political resolutions. Two resolutions were presented, one favoring the British scheme-with reservations, the other unalterably opposed. On a roll call delegates voted "Aleph" ("A") for the first resolution, 'Beth" ("B") for the second. There were 300 Alephs to 158 Beths, and the following resolution was declared adopted...
...four freed Negroes: Willie Roberson, 21, cured of a venereal disease since his 1931 arrest; Eugene Williams, 21, Roy Wright, 20; and semi-blind Olin Montgomery, 24. To Lawyer Liebowitz they were not only four innocent brands plucked from the burning, but four more celebrities added to the roll of 132 accused murderers and others whom Sam Liebowitz boasts of saving from death. He, a Jew, had dared the South's "boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose mouths are slits . . . whose eyes pop out at you like frogs', whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy." He had faced...
...dirty cantina, but one day they got gav on tequila and were dumped in jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does it make if it takes you a week or so to get the money instead...