Word: capitol
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Massillon gave the old gentleman an attentive ear because he was no less a person than Jacob Coxey, 76. It was from Massillon in the Spring of 1894 that "General'' Coxey led his rag-tag and bobtailed army of unemployed across the country to the Capitol at Washington to demand relief. That march made its leader famous, though it failed to advance the bizarre economic cause for which he staged it. The Coxey plan for unemployment relief in 1894 and 1931 was to have States and municipalities issue 25-year non-interest bearing bonds to be deposited with...
...Bloom: Nobody need go further than the Capitol to find an authentic painting of the surrender in which just 37 persons appeared and only three of them were British.† All the British soldiers had laid down their arms and passed from the picture before the actual surrender occurred. . . . General Cornwallis, being indisposed, asked his subordinate General Charles O'Hara to present the sword, denoting defeat. General Washington designated General Benjamin Lincoln to accept it. I believe Washington did not even allow his men to cheer...
...Originator of this famed tag for George Washington was Representative Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee of Virginia who used it during his funeral oration before the Senate and the House of Representatives. †In the Capitol rotunda hangs Painter John Trumbull's version of the surrender, with Washington in the background, Cornwallis absent...
...Secretary's portrait to hang in his old department. Likeliest way to remove an undesirable would be by resolution of Congress. No picture of Harry Micajah Daugherty, discredited Attorney General, nor of Aaron Burr, unpopular U. S. Vice President, hangs officially in Washington. But in the Capitol lobby still hangs Schuyler Colfax, U. S. Vice President (1869-73) who was implicated but not convicted in the Credit Mobilier scandal...
...English law was enacted providing that anyone discovering a theatre open on Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...