Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authority will, by last year's decision of the Supreme Court, be subject to Federal income tax retroactively for three years. He urged a simple act (instead of a Constitutional Amendment) to end all exemptions, but not retroactively, and sent Under-Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes up Capitol Hill to argue for the change, which might bring the U. S. over $300,000,000 a year in new tax revenue...
When the Congress heard President Roosevelt's special message on Relief last fortnight, requesting an additional $875,000,000 to operate WPA from February through June 1939, some of the biggest spenders on Capitol Hill widened their eyes. That would be spending at the same rate as in June of last year, when WPA plunged in to meet Depression II, now superseded by Recovery. With whoops of economic righteousness, the House of Representatives last week fell upon the President's WPA request...
Adolf Hitler was practically hammering on the Capitol's dome when Franklin Roosevelt closed with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln: "This generation will 'nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. . . . The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless...
That same day Mr. Lindbergh received another kind of publicity in headlines announcing: LINDBERGH GIVES U. S. NAZI AIR DATA: LINDBERGH BARES NAZIS' AIR POWER: LINDY AIR SECRETS STIR CAPITOL...
Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...