Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no Federal law against nepotism.* A Senator or Congressman may load the Government payroll with relatives as heavily as his conscience or his constituency will permit. Some family jobholders actually work; others only draw pay. Among the most industrious Capitol clerks is Mrs. John Nance Garner who gets $325 per month for ably serving her husband, the House Speaker, as secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket...
...Attention, the Universe, by kingdoms right wheel") from one side of Manhattan's Washington Square to the other. Six years later Congress voted him $30,000 for telegraphic experiments. The next year his first long-distance message ("What hath God wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously fingered a gold-nugget-studded telegraph key in the White House. At his touch a high speed automatic transmitter began rattling out the President...
...President's plan not only steered clear of the Budget but also of the Treasury's credit. It would be financed by the sale of R. F. C. debentures which are only indirect obligations of the Government. Senator Robinson took it back to the Capitol where his party colleagues closeted themselves in an effort to draft a legislative compromise. Most Democrats objected to the idea of R. F. C. loans to private industries rather than to public agencies on the ground that the Administration could use this financial power to muster election votes. Republican Senators, generally cold...
...anarchistic precedent, begins to harang Thalians to join the Allies. While grinding his teeth at Communists, Socialists, Pacifists, he grinds his own axe as well. His paper is subsidized by the Allies. His fame and popularity grow to such proportions that, after the War, when he marches on the capitol, Mirasol, he is immediately proclaimed Dictator by the helpless King. For a time, with Luciana helping, he is kingpin. But he needs king-pin-money from U. S. Financier Stedford to keep going. At first Stedford, who has a passion for Luciana, grants the loans. But when Hannibal makes...
Luther gets a girl for himself in Battle-burg, makes himself there a homesick kind of home. All day and every day for weeks the Tohannocks and the Hehonees stand in full Indian regalia in the capitol lobby for the assemblymen to see. All day, back home at Ball's Wharf, Sarah Sprouse, whose husband John has died, dreams of Luther. Finally she begins to write him love letters on the sly. But Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature...