Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work Relief. In the Senate Appropriations Committee the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief bill, rubber-stamped by the House under gag rule, was receiving its first critical appraisal. The Committee fought in miniature the battle that will be refought on the Senate floor: between 1) Conservatives who oppose handing the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double...
...when certain facts were pointed out to Southern Congressmen: if aged negro mammies and pappies drew $200 a month, none of their offspring would do a lick of work-the South would be ruined. Therefore no Southern Congressman need sign a petition to bring the Townsend Plan to the floor and if it were not brought to the floor no one need vote for it. Everyone breathed easier...
After the six bouts of boxing and three of wrestling have been decided, a Harvard all-House basketball team will take the floor against an invading dormitory and fraternity organization...
...debate will then procede with arguments of John M. Graham '38 and Paul R. Voat '38 for the negative and Robert E. Wernick '38, sole supporter of the affirmative. Following this, there will be parliamentary discussion from the floor...
Having finally eased one's self out of the Hotel via the inimitable revolving doors, ride up Connecticut Avenue to Restaurant Pierre's on the second floor of a "cute little building." Here one may partake of hors d'oeuvre, sip an Old-Fashioned, feel embarrassed when a mannikin displaying her wares is taken for somebody else displaying her wares. Feel provincial, as one listens to a sparkling conversation in French between two First Secretaries of embassies--or perhaps "they're only military attaches." Point out to your friend that "that new stylists hats looks like George Washington...