Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with the aid of a burning coconut shell and hot candle grease...
...months silent, the Capitol on Monday again rumbled and bumbled with the confusion of many voices that tells the country Congress is in session. Like reluctant school boys, Senators and Representatives came trooping back to open the second session of the 70th Congress...
...Governor-solid, persevering, long-mustached Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt of Arizona who lately failed of reelection for his seventh term (TIME, Nov. 12) walked quietly down the Capitol steps. He explained that the blow he had received was "inadvertently brought about when State Senator Colter moved his arms in argument...
...statue of Andrew Jackson in the capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn., was similarly treated. The Mississippi Legislature took under advisement a resolution to have the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson removed from "Republican soil" (Virginia) to "Democratic soil" (Mississippi...
...health, plans were drawn to instal an elevator in the Capitol and save his crippled legs a long climb. Mrs. Roosevelt said that her chief worry was that, too busy to exercise, he would get fat and give the legs that much more to carry. As soon as his very close victory (25,000 plurality) was assured, he set out for his retreat at Warm Springs, Ga., to exercise as much as possible before inauguration...