Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into the U. S. Capitol as one of its two most illustrious citizens...
...Otto Mears, 91. Colorado hero, in Pasadena, Calif. Because he was a pioneer railroader (onetime president of Denver & Rio Grande), a pioneer builder of such state-wide projects as the telegraph system, and a member of Colorado's first legislature, his stained-glass portrait hangs in the State Capitol's dome, Denver...
...conspiracy to overthrow the State government and seize its reins by a few ambitious men." They insisted no specific wrong-doing was charged against him, no positive evidence adduced to sustain the general charge. When the House finally voted (58-10-41) to dismiss Impeachment Article No. 1, the capitol at Nashville thundered with cheers and applause...
...smoke-begrimed frame on a wall of Tennessee's capitol, Andrew Jackson seemed to cock his long ears expectantly one day last week. Below him sat the House, strangely hushed. Another hot political battle?the kind Old Hickory loved so well?was rumbling into Nashville. To his feet rose Representative John Tipton of Tipton to announce...
...operating companies, stock ownership, management fees, interlocking directorates. After a year's secret work, the investigators are now ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will touch the public pocket nerve, it is the phase for which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly waited. Eminent in this group is Iowa's loud, intransigent Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart. Like Senators Norris, Nye, Howell, La Follette et al., he is ready to seize upon the Commission's disclosures and therefrom argue for stricter Federal regulation of interstate power...