Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What lay behind the appointment was President Hoover's desire to make Washington "a model city," to answer repeated Congressional charges that liquor flowed unchecked, that narcotics were peddled under the shadow of the Capitol, that gambling joints and brothels ran wide open, all because the D. C. police were lax and corrupt. Declared President Hoover...
...were the first hearings that the Drys had ever given the Wets in the House since Prohibition. Heretofore Wet legislation has been smothered under parliamentary silence. What caused the change this time was the threat of the Wets to set up an unofficial committee of their own in the capitol and hold mock hearings on Prohibition changes. To prevent such an undignified procedure the Drys consented to official hearings before the Judiciary Committee...
...pleasure last week for Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon to drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
Thirty minutes later as he drove down Capitol Hill he was feeling very much better because he had not only talked transfer effectively but, more important, had successfully withstood the hectoring of Wets who sought to evoke his personal opinion on Prohibition...
After an absence of 69 years, Jefferson Davis was last week ready to re-enter the U. S. Capitol as a representative of Mississippi. In heroic bronze he will take his place in Statuary Hall. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman has finished the figure-erect, head high, eyes front, topcoat flowing from his shoulders, a pair of eyeglasses held loosely in his right hand-the President of the Confederacy entering an important situation with none of the air of a Lost Cause...