Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: With his wife he lives in an old house on East Capitol Street. He entertains little, shuns society, keeps no car. Once he was taken up and lionized by Washington hostesses as a strange political specimen but when they found he did not roar loud enough for a third-party man they cooled toward him. One of his closest personal friends is Editor Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson of the Washington Herald. Indulging in none of the usual amusements of Senators he leads a solitary intellectual life befitting his unique political status...
...voters of North Dakota decided emphatically last week against moving their capital to Jamestown from Bismarck where the capitol burned last year...
...proposed a beer tax. Another favored a system of taxes on checks, legal documents, radios, luxuries, motor vehicles et al. Sales tax objectors, however, were so vociferous that Mr. Crisp decided to prepare some "perfecting amendments" which make exemptions here & there. Secretary of the Treasury Mills hurried to the Capitol, threw the solid support of the Administration behind the tax bill...
...question with which Congress does not have immediate concern." Partisan rowing later spread from House to Senate where New Hampshire's Moses sarcastically "marvelled at the moderation with which Mr. Garner began his campaign for the Presidency." Senate Democrats pounced into the fray and the whole Capitol rumbled and roared with the stridencies of party warfare. Just as President Hoover was congratulating Congress on its "patriotic non-partisanship" (see p. 11), that peaceful spirit of co-operation seemed to vanish in a din of angry words...
Last week the U. S. Navy steamed back into the news on Capitol Hill. The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs unanimously approved legislation to build the fighting fleet up to full treaty strength. Japan's warlike activities in the Far East were a large psychological factor in propelling the bill out to the Senate. An anxious state of mind was reflected in Secretary Stimson's hint that Japanese hostilities in China might justify a general abrogation of the Washington and London treaties limiting Naval Armament...