Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opined Speaker Byrns. Representative Deen and Republican Leader Snell jumped to their feet demanding a division. Forced to stand up and be counted, Representatives were far less willing to vote their real preferences: in against adjournment, 48 for. Republican Snell promptly raised the point of no quorum and Democrat Taylor of Colorado demanded a roll call. Forced to go on record, a still smaller percentage of Representatives were willing to defy the Democratic leaders: against adjournment 261; for 87. Another day passed and Franklin Roosevelt, facing his newshawks at the White House, answered a direct question directly...
...word, said that the Adminis-tration was "concerned." That he should be so, retorted Italian Government officials next day, caused them to be "surprised" and there the matter rested, except that Benito Mussolini gave one of his now extremely rare direct quotation interviews to Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor Jr. of the St. Louis Star-Times...
...Senate gallery sat about 200 tourists and one Senator, Indiana's Minton. Whether or not the tourists knew it, Senator Minton was able to point out to his friends that they were privileged to witness an unusual spectacle. In the chamber below Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, sitting on the floor, and Vice President Jack Garner occupying the chair, were placidly puffing cigars in defiance of all Senate rules...
Loyalty & Leadership. These examples of leadership sum up to about this: Joseph Taylor Robinson is a fine, hard-boiled top sergeant, always on the job, never sparing himself, short on finesse, but long on loyalty. Gruff, bad-tempered, wrinkled-faced, he has the voice of an angry bull and an equal amount of courage. But when it comes to wheedling buck privates who can no longer be driven, to using astute finagling to bring men into line, then Franklin Roosevelt has to rely on men like Mississippi's artful Pat Harrison and shrewd Vice President Garner...
...boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry's body in the gutter. Paul Madvig is accused of murder. Ed Beaumont arranges to have himself invited into the camp of Madvig...