Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slope of Capitol Hill, in neat position to help the U. S. government function, lives the Anti-Saloon League of America. Its building is of humble brick, painted a bellicose red. Upon its windows in large gold letters is painted the name: "Wayne B. Wheeler...
...York City, the Financial & Industrial Securities Corp. (the investment organization of the Manufacturers Trust Co.) controls the Capitol National Bank, the Longacre Bank, and the United National Bank. Last week the Financial & Industrial Securities Corp. decided to merge those three banks as the $60,000,000 United Capitol Bank & Trust...
When the flags fly; as they did Monday for the first time since March, over the two boxlike wings of the high domed Capitol, the people of the U. S. are given to understand their will is being done. Do congressmen understand it that way? They swear they do. But such is the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional...
...Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
Tuesday. Breakfast on the train. Registered at the Willard Hotel for a morning of law conferences (the Nickel Plate merger, for the Brothers Van Sweringen of Cleveland, is in his hands). Went to the Supreme Court Chambers at the Capitol. Lunched in the Senate restaurant on pie and buttermilk. . . . Conferred with Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of aviation F. Trubee Davison, presiding officer of the Crime Commission; meeting set for next day. Called at the War Department. Secretary Davis at Cabinet meeting. Conferred with General Pershing's secretary, Captain Adamson, about Cleveland's reception for General Pershing...