Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute. Suddenly another man in the crowd answered for me. 'I know what he would say,' he shouted, 'exactly what he did when some Prohibitionists called on him and asked him what to do about a saloon which was operating in the vicinity of the Capitol. He told them to move it into the basement of that building.' " When she was 16, Pauline Morton moved with her father, onetime vice president of Santa Fe R. R., whose brother is famed for his salt ("It Pours"), to Washington when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy...
...next afternoon Speaker Garner, snappish and irritable, found a hideaway from newsmen in Representative Warren's office at the Capitol. There he sat behind an open door for four hours, listened by radio to his own nomination. He told news cameramen he felt "too bad" to pose for them...
When Washington emptied for Independence Day, 5,000 veterans marched to the silent Capitol, demonstrated on its deserted steps...
...cycle of political pictures. This one gives Lionel Barrymore a spacious and declamatory role, the sort that suits him best. It is not to be confused with Washington Merry-Go-Round, which Columbia will presently release, although it contains a shot of a carrousel against the background of the Capitol. It is an adaptation by John Meehan and Samuel Blythe of Author Henri Bernstein's play The Claw. To give the plot pertinence in a presidential year, the scene is Washington instead of Paris, but Lionel Barrymore's role is the one he had in the play. He is Jefferson...
...General" Jacob Sechler Coxey landed in Washington with his "army" of 336 jobless and got himself arrested for walking on the Capitol grass...