Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol last week marched 1,200 lobbying War veterans to present to House & Senate leaders 20 packing cases in which they said were petitions signed by 2,240,030 persons asking for Bonus legislation...
Last week the Congressional tide for paying off the Soldier Bonus at once and in full continued to rise.* At the Capitol pro bono publico became pro bono politico. In the House 167 members were said to be down in writing as ready to support Bonus legislation, more than enough to force a roll-call vote. Fifty more members were reported as "favorable"' while only 91 were definitely ''opposed." Somewhere in the House background was said to be a colossal petition signed by two million veterans calling for Bonus cash. Though the American Legion was nationally committed...
Into a Congressional committee room in Washington, D. C. stepped Owen D. Young and wearily dropped into a chair. He was sightseeing, he explained. He needed rest while his son Dick, 12, climbed to the Capitol dome. Said Banker Young: "I've brought each of my children to Washington on Easter when they reached 12. He is the last. ... I have found how much [the Government] offers physically to the taxpayer. Before I return home I expect to be a qualified guide...
...Mississippi* last week 9,000 disgruntled whites, led by a Negro jazz band, stormed the State Capitol at Jackson to tell Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner what they thought of a 3% retail sales tax as passed by the State House. "We want Mike! We want Mike!" was the mob's raucous shout as it shuffled from the rotunda toward the Governor's office. Was he in? Some said he was-locked in. Others insisted he was at a downtown hotel. Before the crowd finally drifted out of the Capitol, it left pinned on Governor Conner...
...safety device wholly eliminates the chance of accident. Last week within a few hours of each other two famed trains were in mishaps. At Weverton, Md. the Baltimore & Ohio's eastbound Capitol Limited, going 40 m.p.h., jumped the track when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...