Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recently I visited, for the first time, the two Houses of Congress in the Capitol at Washington...
Purpose: to provide Rumanian Government employes in Bucharest and elsewhere with 50,000 spandy new "model homes"; plus a liberal complement of highways', lighting systems, schools; plus a sugar plum for the Government itself in the shape of "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe...
...Hudson River tunnels, and David M. Oltarsh, whose achievements include four Childs restaurants and Fifth Avenue's smartmart, Kurzman. Mr. Blumenthal and Major Oltarsli each managed to announce last week that his firm was participating in the contract without mentioning the other. Architect for "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building at No. 40 Wall Street. Their scouts report that "the modernistic trend has not yet reached Rumania." Accordingly they will design the new Super-Capitol Building in oldfangled classic style. Materials...
...Wickersham report's reception at the Capitol was not exactly as the President had wished. He had asked for a Joint Committee of Congress to study changes in the administration of Prohibition enforcement. The Senate had voted him what he wanted. Last week the House got the studs, refused to authorize a Joint Committee. Speaker Longworth explained: "The leaders decided they did not believe in a Joint Committee which would take preliminary jurisdiction away from the Committees of the house. ... It is our purpose to take up each legislative measure and have it acted on by independent committees...
...spacious, quiet city, Washington is ideally suited to the winter diversions of starlings, which chiefly include chaffering, feeding, dropping, breeding. Nesting in eaves and sycamore trees along Pennsylvania Avenue, crowding the gutters of the White House roof, congregating on the cornices of the Capitol, they made the scene monotonous. So many roosted and fluttered among the lights of the Fox Theatre that patrons found it difficult to read the names of cinema players there exhibited...