Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitchell will take a squad of about 23 players south, leaving Boston at 7.30 on the evening of April 18. The men wil arrive at Annapolis in time for lunch, and during their stay in that town will be quartered at Carvel Hall, the leading hotel in the Maryland capitol. There will be practice that afternoon, and two more sessions on Tuesday if the weather permits...
...Abandon hope, all ye rejected here"?this legend might well be inscribed over the doorway of the old Senate Chamber in the Capitol, the Chamber in which the Supreme Court now sits. Last week Mr. Charles R. Forbes, onetime Director of the Veterans' Bureau, and Mr. John W. Thompson, St. Louis building contractor, were rejected there...
...What organization now sits in what was once the Senate Chamber of the Capitol? (See POLITICAL NOTES...
...portrait was painted in 1859 by Emmanuel Lentze, who came to America in the early part of the last century to make decorations for the capitol at Washington. Lentze was also commissioned to paint the portrait for Justice Taney's daughter, a Mrs. J. M. Campbell, the wife of a noted lawyer of Baltimore. Lentze is probably best remembered by his painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware", which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The painting of Judge Taney, which is three-quarter length and life size, was done when the Judge was in his eighty-third...
...some time there has been jesting in the press galleries at the Capitol about a "certain southern Senator," formerly a fierce denouncer of Wall Street and the interests and until recently only moderately well-to-do, who during last summer made some $200,000 in real estate and whose philippics have now grown milder because he no longer regards all wealth as an evil demon...