Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House. President Hoover called Senators Watson and Reed to the White House. When they returned to the Capitol, they were asked to explain the Presidents' tariff position. Senator Watson spoke with assurance of a "sane and sensible" tariff revision, of a "yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly from the White House came a denial that Senator Watson had been authorized to voice the Hoover views. Democrats jibed that the President must therefore favor "an insane and senseless" tariff revision without any reasonable measurement for protection. The White House the next day denied its first denial, which left the President...
...distributing company was suing a producing company on the ground that its product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed...
...foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal for his country over the grim neutrality of George Washington's Cabinet, thereby causing his downfall...
Congressman Tinkham charged that: the Board put up its Methodist Building close to "strategic" the position Capitol for because lobbying; of it has its attempted to "dictate and control legislation by personal agency"; it has sought to influence judicial appointments; it has participated in political campaigns without filing expense accounts under the Corrupt Practices...
...diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...