Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper the 73 supporters of the Anti-Lynching Bill controlled nine more votes than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...
...Moscow by enormous, closely guarded walls, is a privilege now granted only exceptionally to Soviet citizens and foreigners. Last week the 569 deputies of the Council of the Union and some 3,000 other people who had acquired special permits surged into the Hall of St. Andrew (Throne Room) of the Great Kremlin Palace. The seats for the spectators were separated only by a small barrier from those of Russia's elected representatives. So it was hard to tell who was who and spectators solemnly raised their hands at the same time as deputies, whenever a vote was taken...
...listen to. Until Judge Taylor was ready to hear them, the birds were kept in a darkened bedroom of Portland's Heathman Hotel, occasionally fed oily black rape seed that their voices might be mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults- Hard Aufzug, Bad Nasal Tour, Ugly Interjection-he awarded points, to the best between...
Prelude to a C.I.O. organizing campaign among dining room and dormitory help was an article last week in the Nation, called Yale Needs the C.I.O., by the Rev. George Butler, a Yale Divinity School graduate. Yale maids, he declared, get only 25? an hour, against 29.1? in Connecticut's laundries, considered a sweated industry. But while student and alumni committees were being formed to help in the organizing drive, industrious Yale Daily News heelers reported the C.I.O. had a big job on its hands. Cracked a janitor: "Lewis [C.I.O.'s John L.] sent his son to Princeton. That...
...Ames, mother of the two boys, presented the Ames Room Wednesday as a meeting place for the Student Council, in memory of her two sons and their father Robert Russell Ames '07 who were lost...