Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first week of the 72nd Congress President Hoover sent three messages to the Capitol. One was on the State of the Union. One was on the Budget. One was on foreign affairs. Because he thus elaborated and separated his ideas, the ordinary citizen, no great reader of presidential messages at best, was left with only a muddled headline impression of the President's manifold purposes. Therefore last week President Hoover adopted a new wrinkle by addressing a fourth message to his countrymen through the Press. The President-to-the-People...
...believe in setting an example in Government economy. It doesn't take an auto to make an office dignified. Mrs. Garner and I walk from our hotel to Peace Monument every day the weather permits. There we usually take one of those 20? taxicabs for the ride up Capitol Hill. A car costs about $5,000 a year- $3,000 for the machine and $2,000 for a driver to sit in it all day. I don't want anybody sitting around all day waiting...
Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
About the Capitol machine guns were nested in high nooks and corners. Policemen carried rifles and tear bombs. An ambulance stood ready in the background. Washington's Superintendent of Police Glassford, smoking a long pipe, dashed about on a motorcycle. When the marchers reached the Capitol plaza they were encircled by police. Except for these jeers and songs, all was peace and order. A committee led by Herbert Benjamin was permitted to enter the Capitol. Benjamin started to push into the Senate chamber. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry blocked...
With that, Benjamin and his committee started to shove inside. Police pushed them back with their shoulders, ejected them from the Capitol...