Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a printed speech in his hand.* The reading of that speech will be his first official act as 31st President...
...Arrival at the Capitol (Senate wing). President Coolidge goes to the President's Room to sign final bills. Mr. Hoover follows...
...therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, do proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon. . . ." With this last Presidential proclamation, Calvin Coolidge summoned the Senate to confirm his successor's Cabinet and other appointments. ¶To the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Radio Commissioners President Coolidge sent the names of Arthur Batcheller of Massachusetts, Cyril N. Jansky Jr. of Minnesota; for associate justices...
...McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator from Wisconsin, who in Jo Davidson's mass marble will soon adorn the Capitol's hall of fame, sent his ready-made platform and took Burton K. Wheeler for his running mate...
Senators, strolling in, took front-row seats. Senator Curtis went for a stroll in the Capitol grounds. His runner-up, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, dallied in the vacant Senate cloak room. Four tellers-California's Shortridge and Utah's King for the Senate; Alabama's Jeffers and Massachusetts' Gifford for the House-ranged themselves importantly before the rostrum. The boxes were unlocked. To Mr. Jeffers was handed the first envelope. He broke the red registry seal and announced...