Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Therefore last week in the ballroom of Washington's exclusive Carlton Hotel they, their families and friends to the number of 200 held a special session of their own at which they succeeded in publicizing these subjects more widely, if more briefly, than they could have at the Capitol. Present were college professors, economists, labor leaders, farm representatives, editors, writers, lawyers, politicians, critics of the times, all of whom had what they called the Progressive type of mind...
...tune with the Constitution the bang of Vice President Curtis' gavel ended the session. It and Speaker Longworth's gavel-bang at the other end of the Capitol also ended the Congressional careers of 15 Senators and 78 Representatives who were either defeated in the November elections or voluntarily retired. It ended Big Business' fear of a special session. It ended legislative hopes embodied in some 23,000 measures that did not pass. But, most newsworthy, it ended a one-man filibuster that had tied the Senate into a knot of impotence all that morning...
Obedient to custom, President Hoover went to the Capitol at 11 a. m. to sign final bills. When he got there, his Attorney General told him his effort was unnecessary, that by law he had ten days more to pass on the work of Congress. For good measure the President signed 26 bills and sent some 400 others back to the White House for further study. The Senate never did notify the President it was about to adjourn because the notification resolution got caught behind the Thomas filibuster...
...crackers-that of the faithless roof guard being an exception. Just to show how steady his nerves were, President Machado made public appearance on the Cuban Independence Day ("The Day of the Shout of Revolution'') last week, and inaugurated Cuba's brand new $18,000,000 Capitol Building...
Oklahoma State Capitol, was shaving Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray when the Governor suddenly thrust him aside, threw off the apron, rushed from the scene. The barber had nicked the Governor's chin. Alarmed. Barber Riggs turned his shop over to Barber G. N. Glenn who, on order of the State Board of Affairs, finally paid Barber Riggs $1,200 for his franchise...