Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Between Capitol Hill and the Hudson River, stretching five or six blocks south of busy, important State Street, is that district of Albany known as "The Gut." The underworld of many a city knows "The Gut" and draws gangsters from it, contributes gangsters to it. Women without escorts do not walk through "The Gut," by day or by night. The district is "segregated," and over it rules a Democratic ward politician, unofficial boss of Albany County, close friend of Lieut. Gov. Edwin Corning, by name Daniel P. O'Connell...
Short, swart, smiling "Cousin Charley" was not there. After poking things into and taking things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight, took the Nominee out on his yacht to watch sailing races in Narragansett...
Callers. The newsmen simply sat, fidgeted, watched callers going in and out. Early to come was William S. Vare, Philadelphia's pudgy boss, whose obtrusion at Kansas City embarrassed Hooverism and irked Pennsylvania (see p. 13). Mr. Vare also went to see Nominee Curtis at the Capitol. The nature of Boss Vare's errands remained obscure...
...toward Secretary Mellon it was recalled that George Wharton Pepper had the Mellon money behind him when he opposed Vare for the Senate in 1926, and that far more money was spent for Pepper than for Vare in the slushy campaign for which Vare was later rejected at the Capitol...
Harry F. Byrd, governor of Virginia, telephoned from the capitol at Richmond to Paris for the purpose of telling Julian Green that his novel, The Closed Garden, was great and to invite him to return to Richmond as guest of the Byrds. Novelist Green, Virginia native, does his writing in France...